The Love Israel Family: Urban Commune, Rural Commune

by Charles P. LeWarne

Winner of the Malstrom Award of the League of Snohomish County Historical Organizations

In 1968, a time of turbulence and countercultural movements, a one-time television salesman named Paul Erdmann changed his name to Love Israel and started a controversial religious commune in Seattle's middle-class Queen Anne Hill neighborhood. He quickly gathered a following and they too adopted the Israel surname, along with biblical or virtuous first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295988851
• ISBN13: 9780295988856
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher