The Ashkenazi Revolution

309Joshua SteinbergJoshua Steinberg (bornin Wilna 1839, died 1908) was a Russian Jewish writer and educator.Kahanovitch Pinchas Kahanovitch (1884-1950)pen name “Der Nister”, was a Ukrainian Yiddish author. In 1949 Der Nisterwas arrested by Soviet forces following an order calling for the exterminationof Yiddish writers during the suppression of Jewish culture that began in theSoviet Union in 1948. Der Nister died in a Soviet prison hospital in 1950.(http://www.enotes.com/der-nister-criticism/nister-der).KapoA kapo was a prisoner who workedinside German Nazi concentration camps during World War II in any of certainlower administrative positions. The official Nazi word was Funktionshäftling,or "prisoner functionary", but the Nazis commonly referred to them as kapos.KibbutzA kibbutz (plural kibbutzim) isa collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. Today,farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches,including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim beganas utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism. In recentdecades, many kibbutzim have been privatized and changes have beenmade in the communal lifestyle. A member of a kibbutz is called a kibbutznik.Kinneret GroupRussian members of HashomerHatzair founded the first kibbutz, of their movement, on the shores of LakeKinneret (Galilee) in 1924. They were politically distinctive from otherbranches of Hashomer Hatzair.KnessetThe legislative branch of the Israeligovernment, the Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and Prime Minister(although the latter is ceremonially appointed by the President), approvesthe cabinet, and supervises the work of the government. In addition, it alsorecommends a candidate for the State Comptroller to the President, whoappoints the State Comptroller. It also has the power to waive the immunityof its members, remove the President and the State Comptroller from office,remove a Prime Minister convicted of an offense involving moral turpitude, andto dissolve itself and call new elections. The Prime Minister may dissolve theKnesset. However, until an election is completed, the Knesset maintainsauthority in its current composition.