The Israeli Career of Hummus
Colonial Appropriation, Authenticity, and Distinction
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2026
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-07530-7 (ISBN)
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How did an Arab dish become an Israeli culinary passion? Less than a century ago, hummus and other Palestinian staples were often met with disinterest and sometimes outright rejection among Zionist settlers. Yet for modern-day Israelis, hummus has become something iconic: a dish whose everyday consumption is irrevocably intertwined with cultural perceptions of indigeneity and masculinity.
The Israeli Career of Hummus tracks how hummus has turned from an "Arab" or "Oriental" food into a national symbol and culinary cult in Israel. Rather than regard culinary appropriation as a necessary outcome of land colonization, author Dafna Hirsch instead examines how changing gastronomic, economic, and political factors intersected with material and cultural production in a multi-layered and socially stratified colonial space. Departing from the thesis of cultural erasure of hummus's Arab or Palestinian provenance, Hirsch shows how the Arab identity of hummus functions as a semiotic resource, which is sometimes suppressed and at other times leveraged to lend authenticity to hummus—and thus to its consumers.
Shedding new light on the socio-historical process of culinary appropriation amidst settler colonialism and nation building, The Israeli Career of Hummus invites readers to consider the complex trajectory and multiple factors and mediators that participate in the making of a highly charged and politically contested dish.
The Israeli Career of Hummus tracks how hummus has turned from an "Arab" or "Oriental" food into a national symbol and culinary cult in Israel. Rather than regard culinary appropriation as a necessary outcome of land colonization, author Dafna Hirsch instead examines how changing gastronomic, economic, and political factors intersected with material and cultural production in a multi-layered and socially stratified colonial space. Departing from the thesis of cultural erasure of hummus's Arab or Palestinian provenance, Hirsch shows how the Arab identity of hummus functions as a semiotic resource, which is sometimes suppressed and at other times leveraged to lend authenticity to hummus—and thus to its consumers.
Shedding new light on the socio-historical process of culinary appropriation amidst settler colonialism and nation building, The Israeli Career of Hummus invites readers to consider the complex trajectory and multiple factors and mediators that participate in the making of a highly charged and politically contested dish.
Dafna Hirsch is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, the Open University of Israel. She is author of "We Are Here to Bring the West": Hygiene Education and Nation Building in the Jewish Society of Mandate Palestine (2014) and editor of Entangled Histories in Palestine/Israel: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives (2024). She lives in Tel Aviv.
Preface: Why Hummus?
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Zionism and Culinary Appropriation
1. Early Culinary Contacts
2. "The East Conquers the Stomachs of the West"
3. Nationalism in a Can
4. The Gourmetization of Hummus and the Return of the Repressed Arab
5. Made with Love: Mass-Produced Authenticity
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 29 b&w illus. |
| Verlagsort | Bloomington, IN |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-253-07530-0 / 0253075300 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-07530-7 / 9780253075307 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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