From an Israeli Cartoonist's Portfolio
GARDOSH, KARIEL C.
From an Israeli Cartoonist's Portfolio DOSH In Budapest, where he was born in 1921, Kariel Gardosh (alias "Dosh") wanted to be a journalist. His schooling was interrupted by World War II, however,...
...His schooling was interrupted by World War II, however, when he was forced to work in a German copper mine...
...He spent three years there before escaping and joining a group of Yugoslav partisans...
...Dosh's creation has now become a popular symbol of the State and its people...
...Could it be that we enjoy it...
...His most famous creation is the slight figure of "Little Israel," the small, vulnerable boy who wears a kova tembel (the funny hat worn by early kibbutzniks), shorts and sandals...
...The symbol was intended to take its place among the images of other peoples: alongside the American Uncle Sam, the French Marianne and the Russian Bear...
...Dosh is now the political cartoonist for Ma'ariv...
...S'firat Ma'ariv, 1988), a cartoon chronicle of the 40 years of Israel, and of Little Israel...
...In celebration, we offer a selection of cartoons from Dosh's most recent book, Forty...
...These new Israeli citizens could easily "read" Dosh's cartoons, and their short accompanying Hebrew subtitles became a learning experience...
...His cartoons are also regularly reprinted in the Israeli Hungarian daily, Uj Kelet...
...Even the cartoons that are decades old still speak to today's headlines...
...So he became a picture journalist, a political cartoonist...
...Many of his cartoons dwell on internal Israeli conflicts...
...This year, Little Israel turns 40...
...In 1948 Dosh arrived in Israel with his dream of becoming a journalist .intact, but his Hebrew wasn't good enough to be a word-journalist...
...Marked by Dosh's own unique brand of comic irony, his cartoons have had a special appeal to Israel's large immigrant population, still not entirely comfortable with Hebrew...
...Our stormy arguments express themselves in terms of left-right, doves-hawks, supporters and opponents of the territorial occupation, not to mention our religious wars and ethnic divisions," Dosh explained...
Vol. 14 • January 1989 • No. 1
