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- Title
The New Belle Juive Onstage: Ethiopian Actresses in Israel.
- Authors
Cofman-Simhon, Sarit
- Abstract
La belle juive ("the beautiful Jewess") is an archetype of nineteenth-century European Romantic literature, painting and theater. Intriguingly, a similar pattern is discernible in present-day Israeli theater with regard to actresses of Ethiopian Jewish origin. The mainstream theater is embracing these young women, offering them leading, passionate roles. However, their case calls for a careful double check of beauty as human capital. I would like to explore how the nineteenth-century European archetype operates in ways that stereotype these women in twenty-first century Israel as figures of alterity and exoticism. Their beauty operates in both cases as gender-oriented otherness and as the location of difference.
- Subjects
ISRAEL; ACTRESSES; WOMEN; STEREOTYPES; JEWISH women; ETHIOPIANS; OTHER (Philosophy); YOUNG women; HUMAN capital
- Publication
Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, 2019, Issue 34, p146
- ISSN
0793-8934
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/nashim.34.1.07