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Written during a time when Restorationism (similar to 20th century Christian Zionism) had a strong following, Eliot's novel had a positive influence on later Jewish Zionism. It has been cited by Henrietta Szold , Eliezer Ben-Yehuda , and Emma Lazarus as having been influential in their decision to become Zionists.
- George Eliot, Jane Irwin
- 1876
with whom he speaks it is common sense that Zionism is a hideous political movement; a commonsensical aside therefore is perfectly appropriate. To defend his hatred of Israel, he uses his identity as a Jew to dramatize his revulsion at the treatment of the Pales-tinians by the Zionists. So loathsome is Zionism that
Aug 30, 2016 · George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876), a novel that spurred Zionism in Palestine, opens with a scene of watching and thus moves from a male gaze on a woman's body to a project of envisioning a new nation in a distant land. The national drama of the novel turns on the ideological meaning of gazing at landscape, as Daniel Deronda replaces one ...
Zionism of the novel is the central metaphor through which Eliot simultaneously expunges female impulses to transgress social bound- aries and expunges those who penetrate England's national boundaries.
George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876), a novel that spurred Zionism in Palestine, opens with a scene of watching and thus moves from a male gaze on a woman's body to a project of envisioning a new nation in a distant land.1 The national drama of the novel turns on
One of the most powerful interpretations of the Zionist material in Daniel Deronda is that offered by Elinor Shaffer in her 'Kubla Khan' and 'The Fall of Jerusalem'. She suggests that Deronda's Zionism must be understood in religious-philosophical terms.
with whom he speaks it is common sense that Zionism is a hideous political movement; a commonsensical aside therefore is perfectly appropriate. To defend his hatred of Israel, he uses his identity as a Jew to dramatize his revulsion at the treatment of the Pales tinians by the Zionists. So loathsome is Zionism that
