Ashkenazi Israelis include early-20th-century idealists from eastern Europe who founded Israel's famous kibbutz movement, along with families who escaped from Berlin and Frankfurt in the 1930s and built fashionable Jerusalem neighborhoods such as Rehavia, lined with stone buildings influenced by the Bauhaus and International schools of architecture.
Ashkenazi idealists founded the kibbutz movement in Israel.
Prince Mieszko, leader of the Piast dynasty that ruled the Polonians, undertook the bold step to unify the Polanie (literally, people of the fields ) and neighboring tribes.