TY - JOUR
T1 - The representation of arabs and jews on postcards in Israel
AU - Cohen, Erik
PY - 1995
Y1 - 1995
N2 - A popular large Israeli postcard features a picture of a serving of falafel in half a pita, into which an Israeli flag has been stuck. The postcard, produced by a Jewish publishing house, bears the caption: ‘Falafel—Israel's national snack’ (figure 1). This apparently innocuous postcard is in fact a most telling metonymy of the political as well as symbolic domination of Jews over Arabs in contemporary Israel: Falafel, little balls of ground chick-peas fried in oil, is an Arab dish which was appropriated by Israeli Jewish culinary culture and made into an Israeli dish; it becomes an expression of political domination by means of the Israeli flag stuck into the food.
AB - A popular large Israeli postcard features a picture of a serving of falafel in half a pita, into which an Israeli flag has been stuck. The postcard, produced by a Jewish publishing house, bears the caption: ‘Falafel—Israel's national snack’ (figure 1). This apparently innocuous postcard is in fact a most telling metonymy of the political as well as symbolic domination of Jews over Arabs in contemporary Israel: Falafel, little balls of ground chick-peas fried in oil, is an Arab dish which was appropriated by Israeli Jewish culinary culture and made into an Israeli dish; it becomes an expression of political domination by means of the Israeli flag stuck into the food.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84937278647&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/03087298.1995.10443557
DO - 10.1080/03087298.1995.10443557
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AN - SCOPUS:84937278647
SN - 0308-7298
VL - 19
SP - 210
EP - 220
JO - History of Photography
JF - History of Photography
IS - 3
ER -
