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The question of zion

Rose, Jacqueline

2007,2005

Overview

Zionism was inspired as a movement--one driven by the search for a homeland for the stateless and persecuted Jewish people. Yet it trampled the rights of the Arabs in Palestine. Today it has become so controversial that it defies understanding and trumps reasoned public debate. So argues prominent British writer Jacqueline Rose, who uses her political and psychoanalytic skills in this book to take an unprecedented look at Zionism--one of the most powerful ideologies of modern times. Rose enters the inner world of the movement and asks a new set of questions. How did Zionism take shape as an identity? And why does it seem so immutable? Analyzing the messianic fervor of Zionism, she argues that it colors Israel's most profound self-image to this day. Rose also explores the message of dissidents, who, while believing themselves the true Zionists, warned at the outset against the dangers of statehood for the Jewish people. She suggests that these dissidents were prescient in their recognition of the legitimate claims of the Palestinian Arabs. In fact, she writes, their thinking holds the knowledge the Jewish state needs today in order to transform itself. In perhaps the most provocative part of her analysis, Rose proposes that the link between the Holocaust and the founding of the Jewish state, so often used to justify Israel's policies, needs to be rethought in terms of the shame felt by the first leaders of the nation toward their own European history. For anyone concerned with the conflict in Israel-Palestine, this timely book offers a unique understanding of Zionism as an unavoidable psychic and historical force.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: 20th century / A. D. Gordon / Ahad Ha'am / Anti-Zionism / Antisemitism / Apotheosis / Arab-Israeli conflict / Arab-Israeli conflict -- Psychological aspects / Arabs / Ariel Sharon / Assassination / Auto-Emancipation / Avi Shlaim / Balfour Declaration / Barbara Taylor / Benjamin Netanyahu / Bernard Lazare / Brit Shalom (political organization) / Buber / Crime / Crimes against / David Ben-Gurion / Der Judenstaat / Edward Said / Eric Santner / Ethnic relations / First Intifada / Geopolitics / Good and evil / Haganah / Hannah Arendt / Hans Kohn / Hatred / Hebrews / HISTORY / HISTORY / Jewish / History of religion / Holocaust / Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence / Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945) / Influence / Interethnic relations / Irgun / Israel / Israel -- Ethnic relations / Israelis / Jacques Lacan / Jewish / Jewish history / Jewish identity / Jewish Studies / Jews / Johns Hopkins University / Judaism / King Lear / Labor Zionism / Likud / London Consortium / Mandatory Palestine / Martin Buber / Messianism / Netanyahu / Neurosis / New Historians / On the Eve / Palestinian Arabs / Palestinian Arabs -- Crimes against -- Israel / Palestinians / Philosopher / Political aspects / Political Science / Psychiatry / Psychoanalysis / Psychoanalysis -- Political aspects -- Israel / Psychological aspects / Psychology / Queen Mary University of London / Refusenik / Revisionist Zionism / Sara Roy / Scholem / Shin Bet / SOCIAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies / Sociology / State of Palestine / Superiority (short story) / The Rothschilds (musical) / Theodor Herzl / Tom Segev / Uri Avnery / Weizmann / Yom Kippur War / Ze'ev Jabotinsky / Zionism / Zionism -- History -- 20th century / Zionism -- Psychological aspects / Zvi
• ISBN: 1400826527, 9780691130682, 9781400826520, 069113068X, 0691117500, 9780691117508