Advertising Blooper Of The Day
Aussie Dave | Mar 01, 2012 | 4 comments
Can you spot the blooper in this advertisement appearing on the Ha’aretz website? (hat tip: Kibi)
Clue: It’s not the medieval antisemitic imagery in the foreground. That’s not a blooper, just poor taste.
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Haaretz are gits all the year, not just on Passover.
The imagery you refer to, however, isn’t anti-Semitic, except maybe by association. It’s from a medieval European Jewish Haggadah called “The Haggadah of Birds,” where human beings are drawn with the heads of birds as a way around the Torah’s prohibition of making an image of any real creature existing in His creation. (They probably hadn’t settled yet on the halachah that interprets “Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image” as referring only to 3D models and not 2D drawings.)
The “medieval antisemitic imagery” is actually from the earliest Ashkenazi illuminated Haggadah, known as the “Bird’s Head Haggada”. The gits are probably selling this.
The medieval imgery is actually from a classic hagadah. I believe it is called the bird hagaddah or something.
I’ll avoid gits though, they sound dangerous.
It’s taken me overnight to realize the mistake in the headline. LMAO!