Jews, Blood, and Post-Zionist TV: The Mizrahi as Vampire in Juda
The success of the Israeli vampire-crime-comedy series Juda is not at all trivial, to say the least. It dared to adopt a controversial subgenre that is associated with antisemitism and blood libels. Moreover, it deals with social traumas and the ethnic conflict between the Zionist Ashkenazi hegemony...
| Published in: | Journal of religion and popular culture |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
2022
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| In: |
Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Israel
/ Vampire
/ Horror films
/ Hero
/ Mizrachim
/ Zionism
/ Antisemitism
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BH Judaism KBL Near East and North Africa ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
Horror
B Television B Mizrahi B Vampires B Judah B Ashkenazi B Israel B post-Zionist B Antisemitism B Jewish |
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| Summary: | The success of the Israeli vampire-crime-comedy series Juda is not at all trivial, to say the least. It dared to adopt a controversial subgenre that is associated with antisemitism and blood libels. Moreover, it deals with social traumas and the ethnic conflict between the Zionist Ashkenazi hegemony and the Mizrahi sector, which accuses the hegemony of oppression and discrimination. Juda expresses a critical agenda: a dissolution of Zionist values as the only solution and chance for redemption, both for the hero and for society. Thus, despite emerging at a time when the horror genre had experienced a late blooming on Israeli screens, its appearance is connected to two other central processes in contemporary Israeli film and television: the incorporation of religion and the ascendancy of the Mizrahi hero. Juda overcomes the inherent problem in the image of the Jewish vampire—first by creating a distinction between a Jewish vampire and a gentile vampire, and second by having a protagonist who is a Mizrahi Jew. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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