Dressing Up: Religion and Ethnicity in Israeli National Dolls

This article considers Israel’s national image both at home and abroad through the framework of Israeli costume dolls, looking specifically at the way that gender played a role in Israel’s national image as it travelled from domestic production to international reception. Initially, predominantly fe...

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Autor principal: Katz, Maya Balakirsky 1973- (Author)
Tipo de documento: Recurso Electrónico Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Verificar disponibilidade: HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publicado em: [2015]
Em: Religion & gender
Ano: 2015, Volume: 5, Número: 1, Páginas: 71-90
(Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão:B Israel / Boneco / Representação / Consciência nacional / Judaísmo / História 1920-2015
Classificações IxTheo:AD Sociologia da religião
AG Vida religiosa
BH Judaísmo
KBL Oriente Médio
TK Período contemporâneo
Outras palavras-chave:B sabra
B Disney
B Maskit
B Rivka Stark-Avivi
B Dolls
B Israeli visual culture
Acesso em linha: Presumably Free Access
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Resumo:This article considers Israel’s national image both at home and abroad through the framework of Israeli costume dolls, looking specifically at the way that gender played a role in Israel’s national image as it travelled from domestic production to international reception. Initially, predominantly female doll makers produced three main types of Israeli dolls, but over time the religious Eastern European male doll triumphed in the pantheon of national types. Produced for retail sale to non-Hebrew speaking tourists by immigrant woman, the Eastern European religious male doll came to represent Israel abroad while the market pushed representations of the Middle Eastern Jewish woman and the native sabra child to the side-lines. This article examines the shift from the multi-ethnic collection of dolls as representative of the nation’s idea of itself to the privileging of the male Eastern European doll as representative of the normative image of Israel abroad.
ISSN:1878-5417
Obras secundárias:Enthalten in: Religion & gender
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.18352/rg.10108