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Falafel with Hot Sauce
Acclaimed political cartoonist and comic book author Michel Kichka (Second Generation) brings us the fascinating, informative, and uplifting autobiographical tale of his love affair with Israel, a land he was inspired to move to at the age of twenty. From culture shock and Israeli customs to the mandatory military service, from art school to political conflict and human tragedies, he delivers a richly detailed account of his life as an artist, family man, peace advocate and Belgian Jew turned Israeli, living in the beautiful and troubled city of Jerusalem.
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First published September 14, 2018
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July 20, 2022
A Jewish cartoonist's story about his emigration from Belgium to Israel at the age of 20 and the culture shock he experienced over the intervening 40 years. It's a enthralling look into the everyday life of Israelis through an outsider's perspective. I love reading about other cultures. Seeing Israel through a cartoonist's stories and art was interesting.
Received a review copy from Europe Comics and NetGalley.
Received a review copy from Europe Comics and NetGalley.
March 19, 2021
Beautiful and informative.
Some things I've learned from this graphic novel:
1. There's a thing call 'Jerusalem syndrome'.
2. Aliyah: the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to the Land of Israel.
3. Shoah: Hebrew word for catastrophe, but this word specifically means Holocaust.
4. Toda raba: thank you very much
Some things I've learned from this graphic novel:
1. There's a thing call 'Jerusalem syndrome'.
2. Aliyah: the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to the Land of Israel.
3. Shoah: Hebrew word for catastrophe, but this word specifically means Holocaust.
4. Toda raba: thank you very much
May 5, 2020
Picked this up after much anticipation, given my adoration for Kichka's Second Generation.
I was really looking forward to the personal tales in his second graphic novel. But I was a bit disappointed to find it focused more around politics rather than on his personal tales.
His writing shines when talking about old stories of his youth or young adulthood. I wish more time was spent on elaborating on such things like how he met his wife, raising three boys together, his parents state of mind when Michel first made aliyah. So much left in favor of discussing politics.
Still, the art is gorgeous, and the book stands out on book shelves.
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I was really looking forward to the personal tales in his second graphic novel. But I was a bit disappointed to find it focused more around politics rather than on his personal tales.
His writing shines when talking about old stories of his youth or young adulthood. I wish more time was spent on elaborating on such things like how he met his wife, raising three boys together, his parents state of mind when Michel first made aliyah. So much left in favor of discussing politics.
Still, the art is gorgeous, and the book stands out on book shelves.
Check it out for yourself with my Amazon Affiliate:
Visit bookspoils.com for more book discussions and reviews.
December 12, 2019
This is a fine book and I’m indebted once more to the scope of publisher Europe Comics for producing a great graphic novel and NetGalley for providing me with an early opportunity to read it.
“From Michel Kichka, comes the autobiographical story of his relationship with Israel, the country he chose to hitch his destiny to in 1974, at the age of 20.
An insight into over 40 years of adult life spent in Jerusalem, told through the people he’s met and the political events he’s experienced, this is the story of a life in a land of conflict - a life, that while complex, was one he chose.”
So the commentary at the end of the book records.
Read it and you’ll see this does not really reflect the struggle he faced; his character and his ability to reach beyond religion and race to make friends and embrace all people with his love of cartoon drawing and political satire.
I was fortunate to visit Israel in 1979 and the experiences Michel related in his early days trying to be accepted in the land were telling and interesting to read and reflect upon.
I recommend this comic book without any reservation it is about a man who speaks a universal language through his art and experiences.
It shares a lifetime of struggle and the political fallout of a country that initially fought to survive but later just went to war in a more conventional way.
Some of the atrocities that have been committed were also a struggle to read. While he isn’t keeping score he clearly calls out violence and illustrates this wonderfully in his critique of a cartoon depicting a bomb falling on a child.
It gives some historical context to the conflicts in the Middle East. At a time of a recent attack in New Jersey and anti-Semitic concerns raised in the December 2019 U.K. general election brought a balance perspective on things.
There is great humour throughout “They say the Israelites wandered in the desert for 40 years to get to the Promised Land......And we came to the Promised Land to go wander in the desert.”
Kichka’s humility is also a stand out quality here and, all in all makes for a brilliant piece of wonderful drawings and cartoons supported by memories and the talented people he’s met in his life.
“From Michel Kichka, comes the autobiographical story of his relationship with Israel, the country he chose to hitch his destiny to in 1974, at the age of 20.
An insight into over 40 years of adult life spent in Jerusalem, told through the people he’s met and the political events he’s experienced, this is the story of a life in a land of conflict - a life, that while complex, was one he chose.”
So the commentary at the end of the book records.
Read it and you’ll see this does not really reflect the struggle he faced; his character and his ability to reach beyond religion and race to make friends and embrace all people with his love of cartoon drawing and political satire.
I was fortunate to visit Israel in 1979 and the experiences Michel related in his early days trying to be accepted in the land were telling and interesting to read and reflect upon.
I recommend this comic book without any reservation it is about a man who speaks a universal language through his art and experiences.
It shares a lifetime of struggle and the political fallout of a country that initially fought to survive but later just went to war in a more conventional way.
Some of the atrocities that have been committed were also a struggle to read. While he isn’t keeping score he clearly calls out violence and illustrates this wonderfully in his critique of a cartoon depicting a bomb falling on a child.
It gives some historical context to the conflicts in the Middle East. At a time of a recent attack in New Jersey and anti-Semitic concerns raised in the December 2019 U.K. general election brought a balance perspective on things.
There is great humour throughout “They say the Israelites wandered in the desert for 40 years to get to the Promised Land......And we came to the Promised Land to go wander in the desert.”
Kichka’s humility is also a stand out quality here and, all in all makes for a brilliant piece of wonderful drawings and cartoons supported by memories and the talented people he’s met in his life.
May 30, 2025
What an utterly disgusting piece of delusion and propaganda.
A little recap: this is the story of a settler (by the international definition of settler colonialism, not by me) moving to occupied Palestine, which they call aliyah - the right to citizenship, economical support and return (even if you weren't born there) granted by the zionist project. This while denying even entry to the country to the people who were deported from Palestine in 1948 and their children.
The whole graphic novel is set in Palestine, yet the mere word Palestine/Palestinians is used five times. In the entire book. FIVE. Once as an adjective next to "terrorist", once coupled with Israelis in "Israelis-and-Palestinians" (one wonders where in the world this Palestine all Palestinians come from might be), once as the possible origin of labneh - in a list with Lebanese, Bedouin, or Syrian; once couple with the verb "radicalising", and then as the adjective of a token Palestinian character spitting on the rest of Palestinians.
I laughed out loud.
So brace yourselves and let's dive in.
The whole story is supposed to make us feel empathy towards this "leftist settler" because he convinces the Israeli Occupation Forces he is "more useful to the army with a pencil than with a gun". Awesome! So eager to be useful to the most brutal army in the world by painting tanks for them on occupied houses, you must be a great person, so human!
> Proceeds to paint tanks - used against the indigenous people of the land they're occupying, who don't have an army let alone tanks - on the walls of occupied houses.
Literally. I wish I could post a screenshot of this page.
The recounting of 18 years of war is tone deaf to say the least. The agony of bringing barbecue to their drafted children on shabbat days because they couldn't come home. Bringing barbecue to the occupying army. No word on what that army was doing at the time. The agony of having to buy food for a bunker (but you could buy food, food was provided and not stuck in some trucks at the border by an occupying force, correct?): there's literally a panel where the MC says "This War Is Getting Expensive!". Yup. The pride about a son having "strong moral values" as an officer in - once again - THE GENOCIDAL OCCUPYING ARMY: a scene where said son assists to some "Ahmed" (unmentioned: he's Palestinian) being blindfolded and tied to a jeep he's supposed to run after because there's no space for him on board, and said son runs with him. Then said Ahmed is sent to what might be torture. But hey, the son ran with him behind the jeep. That's strong moral values for you.
I could go on and laugh about it, but this is exactly how you normalise what has been called for decades a "incremental genocide": you make it sound normal.
This book is its time Cowboy Memoir on settling in north america while the indigenous population was caged in reservoirs and made to die of hunger.
Art is political.
The proof is given unwillingly in the very last section of this piece of sorry propaganda: a carousel of brave cartoonists who have been prosecuted for their political stances. Morocco, Iran, Tunisia, Turkiye, Egypt.
None of them is Palestinian. What the colonial entity, Israel, does to the Palestinian artists, our author doesn't say. He prefers to pick one himself, one that draws exactly what the zionists can accept, so much that the minister of culture himself grants him a special permission to exit Palestine - one that is never given so easily, we even read - and tours with him for peace. (I wish we didn't know better. I wish we didn't know Fritz Lang, the Jewish director in charge of nazi propaganda.)
To sum up: wonderful piece of samples for the workshop we're holding on propaganda.
EDIT:
Just in case you had any doubt, mr Kitchka, who put in this very story a Palestinian doctor saving his soldier son from fever, is one of the cartoonist who drew "Hamas is hiding in hospitals" scenes for the army during the last 18 months, justifying the bombing of hospitals in Gaza and the death of patients in their beds as young as one day old. You can find all his cartoons online.
The banality of evil.
A little recap: this is the story of a settler (by the international definition of settler colonialism, not by me) moving to occupied Palestine, which they call aliyah - the right to citizenship, economical support and return (even if you weren't born there) granted by the zionist project. This while denying even entry to the country to the people who were deported from Palestine in 1948 and their children.
The whole graphic novel is set in Palestine, yet the mere word Palestine/Palestinians is used five times. In the entire book. FIVE. Once as an adjective next to "terrorist", once coupled with Israelis in "Israelis-and-Palestinians" (one wonders where in the world this Palestine all Palestinians come from might be), once as the possible origin of labneh - in a list with Lebanese, Bedouin, or Syrian; once couple with the verb "radicalising", and then as the adjective of a token Palestinian character spitting on the rest of Palestinians.
I laughed out loud.
So brace yourselves and let's dive in.
The whole story is supposed to make us feel empathy towards this "leftist settler" because he convinces the Israeli Occupation Forces he is "more useful to the army with a pencil than with a gun". Awesome! So eager to be useful to the most brutal army in the world by painting tanks for them on occupied houses, you must be a great person, so human!
> Proceeds to paint tanks - used against the indigenous people of the land they're occupying, who don't have an army let alone tanks - on the walls of occupied houses.
Literally. I wish I could post a screenshot of this page.
The recounting of 18 years of war is tone deaf to say the least. The agony of bringing barbecue to their drafted children on shabbat days because they couldn't come home. Bringing barbecue to the occupying army. No word on what that army was doing at the time. The agony of having to buy food for a bunker (but you could buy food, food was provided and not stuck in some trucks at the border by an occupying force, correct?): there's literally a panel where the MC says "This War Is Getting Expensive!". Yup. The pride about a son having "strong moral values" as an officer in - once again - THE GENOCIDAL OCCUPYING ARMY: a scene where said son assists to some "Ahmed" (unmentioned: he's Palestinian) being blindfolded and tied to a jeep he's supposed to run after because there's no space for him on board, and said son runs with him. Then said Ahmed is sent to what might be torture. But hey, the son ran with him behind the jeep. That's strong moral values for you.
I could go on and laugh about it, but this is exactly how you normalise what has been called for decades a "incremental genocide": you make it sound normal.
This book is its time Cowboy Memoir on settling in north america while the indigenous population was caged in reservoirs and made to die of hunger.
Art is political.
The proof is given unwillingly in the very last section of this piece of sorry propaganda: a carousel of brave cartoonists who have been prosecuted for their political stances. Morocco, Iran, Tunisia, Turkiye, Egypt.
None of them is Palestinian. What the colonial entity, Israel, does to the Palestinian artists, our author doesn't say. He prefers to pick one himself, one that draws exactly what the zionists can accept, so much that the minister of culture himself grants him a special permission to exit Palestine - one that is never given so easily, we even read - and tours with him for peace. (I wish we didn't know better. I wish we didn't know Fritz Lang, the Jewish director in charge of nazi propaganda.)
To sum up: wonderful piece of samples for the workshop we're holding on propaganda.
EDIT:
Just in case you had any doubt, mr Kitchka, who put in this very story a Palestinian doctor saving his soldier son from fever, is one of the cartoonist who drew "Hamas is hiding in hospitals" scenes for the army during the last 18 months, justifying the bombing of hospitals in Gaza and the death of patients in their beds as young as one day old. You can find all his cartoons online.
The banality of evil.
March 23, 2023
We see a young Michel Kichka tasting a helping of Falafel with hot sauce on his first vacation to Israel in the opening pages of his second graphic novel, aptly titled as Falafel With Hot Sauce. At that moment, he learns his first lesson- 'In Israel, what you see isn't always what you get'. The book builds up on this lesson and chronicles his bittersweet relationship with Israel.
Please read the full blog post here
Please read the full blog post here
December 28, 2019
Falafel with Hot Sauce by Script and art by Michel Kichka I really enjoyed this book. It had everything in it, it was colourful throughout with a great story from a political cartoonist by Michel Kichka he bought us a brilliant, informative and uplifting story of his life and love affair with Israel the land he was inspired to move to and live there from the age of twenty.
Michel found it a culture shock at first with all the customs Israel had to the mandatory military service etc. it tells us a story from his art school to human tragedies, He shows us through his cartoon script which is very detailed and colourful throughout. You will also find out about his life as an artist and in more detail, his family who just wanted peace. Michel was Belgian Jew turned Israeli, living in the beautiful and troubled city of Jerusalem.
Thank you to Netgalley for a his e-book/comic ARC to read and review.
Michel found it a culture shock at first with all the customs Israel had to the mandatory military service etc. it tells us a story from his art school to human tragedies, He shows us through his cartoon script which is very detailed and colourful throughout. You will also find out about his life as an artist and in more detail, his family who just wanted peace. Michel was Belgian Jew turned Israeli, living in the beautiful and troubled city of Jerusalem.
Thank you to Netgalley for a his e-book/comic ARC to read and review.
January 3, 2020
Thanks SO MUCH to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC!
This started out pretty good--but I loved where it took me! The author moved to Israel as a young man and chronicles his life there in t his graphic memoir--following his life there, his service to Israel, marriage, parenting his sons through their defense service, emphasizing throughout his commitment to peace, and ending with a lovely discussion of the friends he has made through an international group of political cartoonists for peace. This is a little gem and will beautifully repay the time one spends on it.
This started out pretty good--but I loved where it took me! The author moved to Israel as a young man and chronicles his life there in t his graphic memoir--following his life there, his service to Israel, marriage, parenting his sons through their defense service, emphasizing throughout his commitment to peace, and ending with a lovely discussion of the friends he has made through an international group of political cartoonists for peace. This is a little gem and will beautifully repay the time one spends on it.
July 19, 2020
A real, underrated gem!
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April 28, 2025Very informative
March 3, 2023
Really enjoyed the funny first half of this which focused on his culture shock after visiting and then moving to Israel. The second half focusing on his career & the Middle East since was ok but not as interesting as the first half.
January 24, 2020
A Wide Ranging Memoir
This is Michel Kichka's memoir of his life in Israel, from his arrival there at the age of twenty up to the present - a span of over 40 momentous years. It is a personal tale, a cultural tale, and a history, and shifts subtly during the course of the telling.
For me, the first two-thirds of the book were the most interesting. It is filled with optimism, incident, and ground level insight about Israel and Israeli culture. There is humor and joy, but it is tinged by a slight air of wistfulness, since we know that time will bring great changes to Israeli society. By the final third we learn a great deal about Kichka's professional life and less and less about his personal life or about day to day life in Israel. This part is overtly political, at least in that we share Kichka's disappointment in the rightward drift of Israeli politics. His love of his country is never diminished, but his hope and optimism seem to fade.
But of course that's all part of the big picture, and Kichka is honest and direct in his telling. You will learn more about Israel's history and society than you might have thought possible, and meet a generous and thoughtful tale teller, (and a range of fascinating and colorful characters), along the way. An excellent find.
(Please note that I had a chance to read a free ecopy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the
March 10, 2020
I seem to be stumbling on some weighty graphic novels of late. This is no exception. I had not heard of the author before or seen his work. I just noticed it was based in a time and place that I had little to no knowledge of and I set out to rectify that.
I liked the art of the book, the emotions of the characters from weariness to anger - everything was described without actually saying the words. It spans the life of Michel Kichka from when he first went to Israel and almost to the present time. It covers a lot of ground, with a lot of emotions and upheaval within the pages. I was only jarred by the constant back and forth of the timeline. In some places, I enjoyed the effect and not so much in the others. I was already trying to absorb a lot and would have loved it if had been broken into chapters and the chronology varied within that or overall kept to a steady change to time. This is his life, and he goes through a lot to get to the point he has, and the panels shine that message through.
He witnesses many political changes, and his growing family also contributes to the country that he chooses to move to and settle in. It is not for light reading but quite an interesting one and taught me a few things. It had me thinking about parts of the world that I do not regularly get a chance to ever consider. I highly recommend this to anyone who is okay with reading this format and is interested in looking at life in Israel in the past few decades.
I received an ARC thanks to NetGalley and the publishers, but the review is entirely based on my reading experience.
I liked the art of the book, the emotions of the characters from weariness to anger - everything was described without actually saying the words. It spans the life of Michel Kichka from when he first went to Israel and almost to the present time. It covers a lot of ground, with a lot of emotions and upheaval within the pages. I was only jarred by the constant back and forth of the timeline. In some places, I enjoyed the effect and not so much in the others. I was already trying to absorb a lot and would have loved it if had been broken into chapters and the chronology varied within that or overall kept to a steady change to time. This is his life, and he goes through a lot to get to the point he has, and the panels shine that message through.
He witnesses many political changes, and his growing family also contributes to the country that he chooses to move to and settle in. It is not for light reading but quite an interesting one and taught me a few things. It had me thinking about parts of the world that I do not regularly get a chance to ever consider. I highly recommend this to anyone who is okay with reading this format and is interested in looking at life in Israel in the past few decades.
I received an ARC thanks to NetGalley and the publishers, but the review is entirely based on my reading experience.
March 15, 2020
A very effective pictorial autobiography – a form graphic novels do immensely well, given the right talent and subjects – of a Belgian lad who made his home where his spirit said it was, in the Holy Land of Israel. It starts with BJs and other initiations on kibbutzes, and soon progresses to a young family that is subject to so many wars and militarised problems it's little wonder the couple become politicised. She takes up the placard and the linked arm, he takes up the pen and builds from the drawing board up. I didn't know his work, but I saw here how his loaded, snappy, political comics must have been a success. The style – the colouring and the line work – is a little more rough and ready than fully polished, and only a man like this could get away with drawing such noses on such faces, but the full intent of the book is achieved. We don't know if he ever got the taste for the titular foodstuff, but he certainly grew roots in Israel, and however bad it gets, there should always be ice cream on offer. A really pleasant, but emotion-laden, book – at least four stars.
January 10, 2020
This graphic novel is a memoir which tells the story of cartoonist and comic book author Michel Kichka. Born and brought up in Belgium Michel moved to Israel at 20 and made a life there. Now forty five (thereabouts) years later Michel tells us the story of his life in Israel and his activities as a peace advocate.
It is well drawn and brightly coloured and it is also informative because it tells us about life in Israel through all the joys and pains of living there.
It is also a story about family and about love. Love of country, family, neighbour and peace.
I thought it was a bit too wordy for me in places but I don't think it could be done any other way. It is a truly fascinating story and well worth reading.
Copy provided by Europe Comics via Netgalley in exchange for an unbiased review.
It is well drawn and brightly coloured and it is also informative because it tells us about life in Israel through all the joys and pains of living there.
It is also a story about family and about love. Love of country, family, neighbour and peace.
I thought it was a bit too wordy for me in places but I don't think it could be done any other way. It is a truly fascinating story and well worth reading.
Copy provided by Europe Comics via Netgalley in exchange for an unbiased review.
September 18, 2020
WOW! What a comic strip!
This is the biography of the author, Michel Kichka, who was a Jew born in Belgium. Who stepped his feet on the hot soil of Tel Aviv one summer in 1969,and fell in love with the country. He then moved there once he finished his formal years, and so the story goes.
Set on the 70's when kids nowadays don't know nothing about, the struggle, the life in Israel that is so untouchable to most of us, is kinda fascinate me. But to be honest, this comic is not what I expected to spend my leisure time on. It's not that easy to digest, and you must know Israel's history to be able to discern some scenes.
This is the biography of the author, Michel Kichka, who was a Jew born in Belgium. Who stepped his feet on the hot soil of Tel Aviv one summer in 1969,and fell in love with the country. He then moved there once he finished his formal years, and so the story goes.
Set on the 70's when kids nowadays don't know nothing about, the struggle, the life in Israel that is so untouchable to most of us, is kinda fascinate me. But to be honest, this comic is not what I expected to spend my leisure time on. It's not that easy to digest, and you must know Israel's history to be able to discern some scenes.
December 14, 2019
The author of Second Generation is back with another autobiographical graphic novel, this time detailing his love affair with the land of Israel and why he chose to leave his native Belgium to relocate to the middle East. He also explains why and how he became a political cartoonist, what he thinks of the current state of politics in his area, and what it was living through several wars, both major and minor.
January 6, 2019
4/5 - Pour moi qui ai visité Israël il y a peu, ce fut une lecture à la fois divertissante et éclairante sur un pays qui recèle encore beaucoup de mystères. Extrêmement bien documenté.
September 24, 2020
A profound account of a left -wing Israeli as he advocates for peace admits the Palestine-Israel chaos.
June 3, 2021
Very nice read. I think I will definitely check the other comic books from the author.
November 15, 2023
Komiks ciekawy z wielu powodów. Po pierwsze napisany i narysowany przez lewicowego żyda, po drugie jest to jego subiektywny odbiór rzeczywistości i wydarzeń historycznych, po trzecie powstał w 2018 roku, czyli stosunkowo niedawno. Historia Michela nadaje zniuansowania rysowi społecznemu Izraela. Sporo nauczyłem się z jego świadectwa, choć wątpię by zmienił mój pogląd na toczące się od dekad piekło w tamtej części świata. Jeśli ktoś nie wie nic na temat tej wojny to niech nie sięga po ten komiks w pierwszej kolejności, bo jest świetny jako... nowa perspektywa?
July 21, 2019
Funny but a little self-indulgent
August 28, 2023
Récit autobiographique du dessinateur de BD belge Michel Kichka, qui s’est installé en Israël à l’âge de 19 ans. Très intéressant !
June 11, 2024
Kichka’s portrayal of Israel is nevertheless a love letter to the people. He can protest himself and his family lovingly, which complements the dreary setting he’s forced into. You clearly understand his motivations and feelings towards these political conflicts, more so his push into it. It shows what goes into political activism and the unfairness that a government has over its people. He does a great job showing fear and love. It’s a fantastic mixture of both, as the book title alludes to. I think his feelings towards that food are my feelings towards this book.
I will say that the depressing moments here can get sad. Unlike Persepolis, however, it presents this atmosphere more optimistically. Kichka, while a fantastic cartoonist, struggles through some of the balancing of the book's narrative. Even though it’s less depressing, I think it was still more challenging to get through, unlike Persepolis. At points, he feels the need to overindulge the audience with text and explanations. It’s all primarily meaningless since we only have characterization through Kichka and his love for Israel. This would’ve been a much better story if he streamlined these events more, maybe making it beefier. I’d love to know more about his family rather than rushing through so much of it.
I liked this book overall. Some moments took me out of it, and I don’t really care for e-books, but overall, I thought Kichka did a great job showing us why it’s essential to love your surroundings, no matter how twisted the individuals who control them might be.
I will say that the depressing moments here can get sad. Unlike Persepolis, however, it presents this atmosphere more optimistically. Kichka, while a fantastic cartoonist, struggles through some of the balancing of the book's narrative. Even though it’s less depressing, I think it was still more challenging to get through, unlike Persepolis. At points, he feels the need to overindulge the audience with text and explanations. It’s all primarily meaningless since we only have characterization through Kichka and his love for Israel. This would’ve been a much better story if he streamlined these events more, maybe making it beefier. I’d love to know more about his family rather than rushing through so much of it.
I liked this book overall. Some moments took me out of it, and I don’t really care for e-books, but overall, I thought Kichka did a great job showing us why it’s essential to love your surroundings, no matter how twisted the individuals who control them might be.
October 28, 2023
Having discovered the magic of graphic memoirs a few years ago, the premise of Falafel With Hot Sauce swept me up immediately. I have read and heard stories from friends about their personal trips to Israel as teens, and how some made the aliyah to immigrate and live there. I wouldn't say that this story is as gripping as I first thought, but I appreciated seeing the author's view, especially as he grew into his craft. As a Navy Veteran in the United States, I can only imagine the trepidation of not only being conscripted yourself, but having to watch your children go through the same process. I appreciate the values that Michel and his wife instill upon their children in showing that there is a way to peace, even if the start is cartooning with what other people consider the opposition.
This book was recommended to me as an ARC on NetGalley.
This book was recommended to me as an ARC on NetGalley.
November 1, 2022
Автобіографічний мальопис про алію (репатріацію) двадцятирічного художника з Бельгії в Єрусалим, любов до Ізраїлю і становлення його ідентичності як людини і як митця. Після прочитання хочеться подорожувати Святою Землею, але без психозу в формі Єрусалимського синдрому, і відкривати для себе нові блюда єврейської кухні.
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