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Dosh (Kariel Gardosh)
(Hungary, 1921 – Israel, 2000)
Gardosh
was born in Budapest to an assimilated Jewish family. In 1941,
following the completion of his high school studies, he was
drafted into a forced-labor battalion and sent to mine copper. His
father and the rest of his family were sent to Auschwitz, where
they were murdered. In 1946, he immigrated to France, where he
studied literature and philosophy at the Sorbonne.
In 1948,
he immigrated to Israel and joined to the Israeli press as a
graphic designer and caricaturist. In 1952, he created the
character “Srulik”, which gained the status of the symbol of the
young nation. In 1953, he joined the editorial staff of Ma’ariv,
in which for fifty years he published a daily political
caricature. Concurrently, he also wrote articles, stories and
one-act plays. He published a number of books, among them: "Alilot
Shav", "Ma Kara" and "Tshuva Helqit". His is the recipient of the
Herzl Prize, the Nordau Prize and the Jabotinsky Prize. |
