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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主要作者: Katz, Maya Balakirsky 1973- (Author)
格式: 电子 文件
语言:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
出版: [2015]
In: Religion & gender
Year: 2015, 卷: 5, 发布: 1, Pages: 71-90
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B 以色列 / Puppe / 代表 / 民族意识 / 犹太教 / 历史 1920-2015
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BH Judaism
KBL Near East and North Africa
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B sabra
B Disney
B Maskit
B Rivka Stark-Avivi
B Dolls
B Israeli visual culture
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总结: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
Contains:Enthalten in: Religion & gender
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.18352/rg.10108