D Hirsch
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 56017 |
|---|---|
| NOME | D Hirsch |
| PRENOMES | D |
| SOBRENOME | Hirsch |
| ASSINATURA | HIRSCH D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Open University of Israel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0025-3385 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 109 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Shchenim, shchunot, shchunatiyut
Nutrition Science, Palestinian Food, and Jewish Settlers’ Acclimatization
How should Jewish settlers live in the new environment? This question preoccupied early Zionist professionals, seeking to employ science in the service of Jewish “acclimatization.” This article focuses on the work of a specific man of science: nutrition scholar Moshe Wilbushewich, who lived and worked in Palestine since 1924 until his death in 1952. Much of Wilbushewich’s work in the interwar period was devoted to investigating the question, how …
Moshe Wilbushewich, “Vitamin Bread,” and Rationalizing the Jewish Diet in Mandate Palestine
Dreams of good food, writes Aaron Bobrow-Strain, are powerful social forces, which "arise out of particular constellations of power and interests that can be analyzed and understood." This article focuses on a specific food item—Vitamin Bread (leḥem ḥai), developed by Moshe Wilbushewich in 1920s Palestine—as embodying notions of "good food" premised on the tenets of rational nutrition. I show how the development of the bread was informed not only…
The family dinner in a period of culinary transformations
Dinner patterns have been changing in Israel in recent decades. While the evening meal is still commonly associated with a specific model comprised of bread, cheese, eggs, and fresh vegetables, the culinary reality is more diverse. In this study, we examine the fate of this "national" model in a period of culinary transformations, based on interviews with upper-middle-class mothers of young children and on an online survey. While the association …
Is 'Hegemonic Masculinity' Hegemonic as Masculinity? Two Israeli Case Studies
In this article, we consider Connell's theory of masculinity through a phenomenon we encountered in our respective research projects, one focusing on the construction of masculinity among early Zionist ideological workers and the other focusing on present-day military masculinities and ethnicity in Israel. In both contexts, a bodily performance which marks the breach of 'civilized behavior' is adopted in order to signify accentuated masculinity. …
Hummus Masculinity in Israel
Adopted from the Palestinian Arabs, and made a part of the Israeli “national food” repertoire, hummus is consumed in Israel in huge amounts. At the same time, hummus is associated with masculinity, and its consumption patterns are highly gendered. As the author argues in this article, the masculine signification of hummus resulted from a combination of factors, including its material and nutritional qualities, its modes of consumption, as well as…
Z ionism
Zionism is the brand of Jewish nationalism that sought to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. Zionism is not a unified ideology but a cluster of movements and ideas, all of which share the belief that the Jews are an ethnic and not merely a religious group and that Palestine (the Land of Israel) is the Jewish homeland. An international Zionist Organization was established in 1897. Building on Jewish religious attachment to the Holly Land, the …
Hygiene, dirt and the shaping of a new man among the early Zionist halutzim
Personal hygiene has pride of place in two of the most important scholarly conceptualizations of the modern body: that of Norbert Elias and that of Michel Foucault. This article analyzes hygienic practices among early Zionist ideological workers – halutzim (lit. ‘pioneers’). Contrary to the image of the healthy and vigorous manual worker, physicians lamented the disregard for hygiene among the halutzim – a behavior which they attributed to the la…
Hummus
Hummus – an Arab dish adopted by Jews in Israel and made into a ‘national dish’ and a culinary cult – was first industrialized in Israel in 1958. In this article we look at the impact of the food industry on shaping both consumption patterns and the signification of the dish. Contrary to accounts that contrast mass production to authenticity and tradition, fast to slow food, globalized trade to local production, we regard the industrial and the a…
Hummus is best when it is fresh and made by Arabs
In this article, I examine the "cultural biography" of hummus in Israel from the Mandate period to the present, focusing on the changing place of Arabness in the signification of the dish. Contrary to accounts that regard food consumption as metonymic of political relations, I argue that, because food items move in several fields, both their consumption and signification are overdetermined processes. Rather than taking hummus to be the essential …
Gender and ethnicity in the Zionist nation-building project
According to Nira Yuval-Davis some of the most important ways in which women are involved in national projects concern their capacity as biological and cultural reproducers of the nation and guardians of its boundaries. In this article I argue that Jewish women in Mandate Palestine not only guarded and reproduced national boundaries, but also redefined them. Middle-class women's organizations acted as agents of 'nationalization' and westernizatio…
We Are Here to Bring the West, Not Only to Ourselves”
During the British Mandate period Zionist health organizations and professional groups made an extensive effort to educate the Jewish public in health and hygiene. This article analyzes the Hebrew popular-scientific discourse of hygiene. It looks at the inculcation of hygienic models of conduct as part of a project of modernization and Westernization. As the analysis demonstrates, Zionist identity was constructed as modern and Western in oppositi…
We Are Here to Bring the West, Not Only to Ourselves
Thus wrote Dr. Asher Goldstein in the Hebrew daily paper Haʾaretz (The Land) in 1935, lamenting the disregard for hygiene among Palestine's Jews. In Goldstein's text, hygiene is metonymic to Western progress, which the Jews were to bring with them to Palestine. Yet the Jews in this text occupy an ambivalent position: they are not only to bring the West to the "entire backward Orient" but also to themselves. A hygienic way of life, far from being …
Zionist eugenics, mixed marriage, and the creation of a 'new Jewish type
The application of racial categories to the Jews by Zionist physicians and anthropologists in the first half of the twentieth century has been the focus of several recent studies. In these studies 'nationalism' serves as the primary explanatory framework for Zionists' embrace of racial concepts. This article focuses on the discourse of Zionist men of science, both in Europe and in Palestine, concerning the repercussions of mixed marriages on Jewi…
Interpreters of Occident to the Awakening Orient
Recent scholarship on Zionism has shown Orientalism to be a pregnant concept through which to study the formation of Jewish society and culture in Palestine and later Israel. As this body of scholarship suggests, Zionist self-perception as an outpost of Western civilization in the Orient has played a fundamental role in shaping both Zionism's relations to the Palestinians and to its 'internal Others'-mizrahi, literally, Oriental Jews. Indeed, it …
Hummus is best when it is fresh and made by Arabs
In this article, I examine the "cultural biography" of hummus in Israel from the Mandate period to the present, focusing on the changing place of Arabness in the signification of the dish. Contrary to accounts that regard food consumption as metonymic of political relations, I argue that, because food items move in several fields, both their consumption and signification are overdetermined processes. Rather than taking hummus to be the essential …
We Are Here to Bring the West, Not Only to Ourselves
Thus wrote Dr. Asher Goldstein in the Hebrew daily paper Haʾaretz (The Land) in 1935, lamenting the disregard for hygiene among Palestine's Jews. In Goldstein's text, hygiene is metonymic to Western progress, which the Jews were to bring with them to Palestine. Yet the Jews in this text occupy an ambivalent position: they are not only to bring the West to the "entire backward Orient" but also to themselves. A hygienic way of life, far from being …
Hummus
Hummus – an Arab dish adopted by Jews in Israel and made into a ‘national dish’ and a culinary cult – was first industrialized in Israel in 1958. In this article we look at the impact of the food industry on shaping both consumption patterns and the signification of the dish. Contrary to accounts that contrast mass production to authenticity and tradition, fast to slow food, globalized trade to local production, we regard the industrial and the a…
Zionist eugenics, mixed marriage, and the creation of a 'new Jewish type
The application of racial categories to the Jews by Zionist physicians and anthropologists in the first half of the twentieth century has been the focus of several recent studies. In these studies 'nationalism' serves as the primary explanatory framework for Zionists' embrace of racial concepts. This article focuses on the discourse of Zionist men of science, both in Europe and in Palestine, concerning the repercussions of mixed marriages on Jewi…
Is 'Hegemonic Masculinity' Hegemonic as Masculinity? Two Israeli Case Studies
In this article, we consider Connell's theory of masculinity through a phenomenon we encountered in our respective research projects, one focusing on the construction of masculinity among early Zionist ideological workers and the other focusing on present-day military masculinities and ethnicity in Israel. In both contexts, a bodily performance which marks the breach of 'civilized behavior' is adopted in order to signify accentuated masculinity. …
Interpreters of Occident to the Awakening Orient
Recent scholarship on Zionism has shown Orientalism to be a pregnant concept through which to study the formation of Jewish society and culture in Palestine and later Israel. As this body of scholarship suggests, Zionist self-perception as an outpost of Western civilization in the Orient has played a fundamental role in shaping both Zionism's relations to the Palestinians and to its 'internal Others'-mizrahi, literally, Oriental Jews. Indeed, it …
Hygiene, dirt and the shaping of a new man among the early Zionist halutzim
Personal hygiene has pride of place in two of the most important scholarly conceptualizations of the modern body: that of Norbert Elias and that of Michel Foucault. This article analyzes hygienic practices among early Zionist ideological workers – halutzim (lit. ‘pioneers’). Contrary to the image of the healthy and vigorous manual worker, physicians lamented the disregard for hygiene among the halutzim – a behavior which they attributed to the la…
Gender and ethnicity in the Zionist nation-building project
According to Nira Yuval-Davis some of the most important ways in which women are involved in national projects concern their capacity as biological and cultural reproducers of the nation and guardians of its boundaries. In this article I argue that Jewish women in Mandate Palestine not only guarded and reproduced national boundaries, but also redefined them. Middle-class women's organizations acted as agents of 'nationalization' and westernizatio…
Interpreters of Occident to the Awakening Orient
Recent scholarship on Zionism has shown Orientalism to be a pregnant concept through which to study the formation of Jewish society and culture in Palestine and later Israel. As this body of scholarship suggests, Zionist self-perception as an outpost of Western civilization in the Orient has played a fundamental role in shaping both Zionism's relations to the Palestinians and to its 'internal Others'-mizrahi, literally, Oriental Jews. Indeed, it …
We Are Here to Bring the West, Not Only to Ourselves”
During the British Mandate period Zionist health organizations and professional groups made an extensive effort to educate the Jewish public in health and hygiene. This article analyzes the Hebrew popular-scientific discourse of hygiene. It looks at the inculcation of hygienic models of conduct as part of a project of modernization and Westernization. As the analysis demonstrates, Zionist identity was constructed as modern and Western in oppositi…
We Are Here to Bring the West, Not Only to Ourselves
Thus wrote Dr. Asher Goldstein in the Hebrew daily paper Haʾaretz (The Land) in 1935, lamenting the disregard for hygiene among Palestine's Jews. In Goldstein's text, hygiene is metonymic to Western progress, which the Jews were to bring with them to Palestine. Yet the Jews in this text occupy an ambivalent position: they are not only to bring the West to the "entire backward Orient" but also to themselves. A hygienic way of life, far from being …
Zionist eugenics, mixed marriage, and the creation of a 'new Jewish type
The application of racial categories to the Jews by Zionist physicians and anthropologists in the first half of the twentieth century has been the focus of several recent studies. In these studies 'nationalism' serves as the primary explanatory framework for Zionists' embrace of racial concepts. This article focuses on the discourse of Zionist men of science, both in Europe and in Palestine, concerning the repercussions of mixed marriages on Jewi…
Gender and ethnicity in the Zionist nation-building project
According to Nira Yuval-Davis some of the most important ways in which women are involved in national projects concern their capacity as biological and cultural reproducers of the nation and guardians of its boundaries. In this article I argue that Jewish women in Mandate Palestine not only guarded and reproduced national boundaries, but also redefined them. Middle-class women's organizations acted as agents of 'nationalization' and westernizatio…
Hummus is best when it is fresh and made by Arabs
In this article, I examine the "cultural biography" of hummus in Israel from the Mandate period to the present, focusing on the changing place of Arabness in the signification of the dish. Contrary to accounts that regard food consumption as metonymic of political relations, I argue that, because food items move in several fields, both their consumption and signification are overdetermined processes. Rather than taking hummus to be the essential …
Hummus
Hummus – an Arab dish adopted by Jews in Israel and made into a ‘national dish’ and a culinary cult – was first industrialized in Israel in 1958. In this article we look at the impact of the food industry on shaping both consumption patterns and the signification of the dish. Contrary to accounts that contrast mass production to authenticity and tradition, fast to slow food, globalized trade to local production, we regard the industrial and the a…
Hygiene, dirt and the shaping of a new man among the early Zionist halutzim
Personal hygiene has pride of place in two of the most important scholarly conceptualizations of the modern body: that of Norbert Elias and that of Michel Foucault. This article analyzes hygienic practices among early Zionist ideological workers – halutzim (lit. ‘pioneers’). Contrary to the image of the healthy and vigorous manual worker, physicians lamented the disregard for hygiene among the halutzim – a behavior which they attributed to the la…
Z ionism
Zionism is the brand of Jewish nationalism that sought to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. Zionism is not a unified ideology but a cluster of movements and ideas, all of which share the belief that the Jews are an ethnic and not merely a religious group and that Palestine (the Land of Israel) is the Jewish homeland. An international Zionist Organization was established in 1897. Building on Jewish religious attachment to the Holly Land, the …
Hummus Masculinity in Israel
Adopted from the Palestinian Arabs, and made a part of the Israeli “national food” repertoire, hummus is consumed in Israel in huge amounts. At the same time, hummus is associated with masculinity, and its consumption patterns are highly gendered. As the author argues in this article, the masculine signification of hummus resulted from a combination of factors, including its material and nutritional qualities, its modes of consumption, as well as…
Is 'Hegemonic Masculinity' Hegemonic as Masculinity? Two Israeli Case Studies
In this article, we consider Connell's theory of masculinity through a phenomenon we encountered in our respective research projects, one focusing on the construction of masculinity among early Zionist ideological workers and the other focusing on present-day military masculinities and ethnicity in Israel. In both contexts, a bodily performance which marks the breach of 'civilized behavior' is adopted in order to signify accentuated masculinity. …
Moshe Wilbushewich, “Vitamin Bread,” and Rationalizing the Jewish Diet in Mandate Palestine
Dreams of good food, writes Aaron Bobrow-Strain, are powerful social forces, which "arise out of particular constellations of power and interests that can be analyzed and understood." This article focuses on a specific food item—Vitamin Bread (leḥem ḥai), developed by Moshe Wilbushewich in 1920s Palestine—as embodying notions of "good food" premised on the tenets of rational nutrition. I show how the development of the bread was informed not only…
The family dinner in a period of culinary transformations
Dinner patterns have been changing in Israel in recent decades. While the evening meal is still commonly associated with a specific model comprised of bread, cheese, eggs, and fresh vegetables, the culinary reality is more diverse. In this study, we examine the fate of this "national" model in a period of culinary transformations, based on interviews with upper-middle-class mothers of young children and on an online survey. While the association …
Shchenim, shchunot, shchunatiyut
Nutrition Science, Palestinian Food, and Jewish Settlers’ Acclimatization
How should Jewish settlers live in the new environment? This question preoccupied early Zionist professionals, seeking to employ science in the service of Jewish “acclimatization.” This article focuses on the work of a specific man of science: nutrition scholar Moshe Wilbushewich, who lived and worked in Palestine since 1924 until his death in 1952. Much of Wilbushewich’s work in the interwar period was devoted to investigating the question, how …
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