Dressing Up:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Dressing Up: "
Maya Balakirsky Katz

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081147
Doc. No	:	LA124776
Call No	:	‭10.18352/rg.10108‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Maya Balakirsky Katz
Title & Author	:	Dressing Up: [Article] : Religion and Ethnicity in Israeli National Dolls\ Maya Balakirsky Katz
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and Gender
Date	:	2015
Volume/ Issue Number	:	5/1
Page No	:	71–90
Abstract	:	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. 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.
Descriptor	:	Disney
Descriptor	:	Dolls
Descriptor	:	Israeli visual culture
Descriptor	:	Maskit
Descriptor	:	Rivka Stark-Avivi
Descriptor	:	sabra
Location & Call number	:	‭10.18352/rg.10108‬