CHAPTER FROM AN UNPUBLISHED MEMOIR:
Kibbutz Stories by Art Feinglass
"Arieh Paz, formerly Leon Gold, of Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, considered himself in the jeep mirror. He fingered his moustache, pushed his cova temble kibbutz cap back on his head, opened his shirt another button and rolled his sleeves up one more fold on his thin arms. Only a year in the country, he thought proudly, and already I look like an Israeli. He put the jeep into first gear and drove out the gate of the kibbutz."
After working in the civil rights movement in Mississippi and hitchhiking and hopping freight trains across America Art Feinglass decided to give life on a kibbutz a try. During his eight years as a member of Kibbutz Lahav in Israel’s Negev desert he became an Israeli citizen, served in the Israeli Army during the Yom Kippur War and was one of the first graduates of Ben Gurion University of the Negev. After leaving Israel he worked for several major American Jewish organizations and launched two successful commercial theater companies while raising his daughters as a single father. More recently he founded and is currently artistic director of the Seattle Jewish Theater Company, now in its tenth year. He is also a member of the Dramatists Guild Playwrights Group.
