Srulik
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Srulik (Hebrew: שרוליק, IPA: [ˈsʁulik]) is a cartoon character symbolizing Israel. The character was created in 1956 by the Israeli cartoonist Kariel Gardosh, known by his pen name Dosh.[1]
The cartoon appeared for many years in the newspaper were respectively icons of France and the United States.
Description
Srulik is generally depicted as a young man or teenager wearing a tembel hat, Biblical sandals, and khaki shorts. Dosh drew Srulik in cartoons on current events for Maariv, and also for various "specials" and occasions of the young state. During wartime, Srulik put on a uniform and was drafted to raise the national morale.
Symbolism
Many have pointed out Srulik's function as an antithesis of the antisemitic caricatures which appeared in Der Stürmer and other European and Arab journals. As against the stereotype of the weak or cunning Jew that was propagated by Joseph Goebbels, Dosh — a Holocaust survivor — drew a proud, strong and sympathetic Jewish character. The journalist Shalom Rosenfeld, editor of Maariv in 1974–1980, wrote:
Srulik became not only a mark of recognition of [Dosh's] amazing daily cartoons, but an entity standing on its own, as a symbol of the
The Jew Süss, in Goebbelsian interpretation, and in the modern times of many caricaturists in the Arab countries.— Shalom Rosenfeld, Maariv, February 2, 2001
Handala
Srulik has been compared to
See also
References
- JSTOR j.ctv2175qz2.
- Jerusalem Post
External links
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