- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Princeton University Press (22 Feb 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0691117500
- ISBN-13: 978-0691117508
- Product Dimensions: 22.1 x 14.9 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 911,289 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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[A] remarkable book. . . . Enormous amounts of news coverage and polemic are devoted to Israel, and the conflict in the Holy Land is the single most bitterly contentious struggle on earth. And yet, as Rose points out, little attention is given to the roots of the Zionist movement and the impassioned debates that once surrounded it. . . . Just what a strange creed Zionism was, and how unlike other nations its out-come, are part of Rose's theme.
(Geoffrey Wheatcroft New Statesman )
Jacqueline Rose has written a timely and courageous book. . . . It could do nothing but good if the force of Rose's argument were to be felt not only in and for Israel but beyond.
(David Stimpson London Review of Books )
Professor Rose's analysis . . . is modestly expressed and methodical. It is also fiercely intellectual. Judaic theology and psychoanalytic theory are wielded like tools, unpicking the minds of Israel's pioneers . . . to the Bible-bashing settlers currently resisting evacuation from Gaza to the West Bank.
(Rafael Behr The Observer )
[A]n original and provocative study, full of arresting insights, that deserves to be widely read in Israel and among diaspora Jews.
(Rabbi David Goldberg Jewish Chronicle )
In some of the most interesting passages of The Question of Zion, [Jacqueline Rose] offers a brilliant account of the psychopathological effects of the holocaust on 'the Israeli mind'. . . . Inspired by Rose's courage and generosity, our field should now engage with much less timidity with the issue of Palestine/Israel.
(Bart Moore-Gilbert Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies )
Rose's highly provocative work raises many important problems and provides many useful insights.
(Laurence J. Silberstein International History Review )
Rose's book has the merit of probing the problematic liaison in the Jewish state between nationalism and religion, on the one hand, and national myth and political reality, on the other. From the perspective of the study of her religion, her book challenges us to pay heed to the fundamental conceptual difference between (religious) redemption and (national) liberation.
(Martina Urban Journal of Religion )
Presents a revisionist appraisal of the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict and concludes that Israel is in danger of destroying itself.
(Sheldon Kirshner Canadian Jewish News )
Rose asks the right questions: is it possible to talk about the suffering of the Jewish people and the violence of the Israeli state in the same breadth? Why is criticism of Israel construed as a denial of the Jewish people's right to self-defense? Can any state act with impunity on grounds of self-defense? And finally, if part of the messianic view of world history is that 'it is part of the cosmic order of things that the nation must live on a knife's edge,' as her analysis suggests, is it possible for there to be peace?
(Cynthia Hoffman Tikkun )
(Geoffrey Wheatcroft New Statesman )
Jacqueline Rose has written a timely and courageous book. . . . It could do nothing but good if the force of Rose's argument were to be felt not only in and for Israel but beyond.
(David Stimpson London Review of Books )
Professor Rose's analysis . . . is modestly expressed and methodical. It is also fiercely intellectual. Judaic theology and psychoanalytic theory are wielded like tools, unpicking the minds of Israel's pioneers . . . to the Bible-bashing settlers currently resisting evacuation from Gaza to the West Bank.
(Rafael Behr The Observer )
[A]n original and provocative study, full of arresting insights, that deserves to be widely read in Israel and among diaspora Jews.
(Rabbi David Goldberg Jewish Chronicle )
In some of the most interesting passages of The Question of Zion, [Jacqueline Rose] offers a brilliant account of the psychopathological effects of the holocaust on 'the Israeli mind'. . . . Inspired by Rose's courage and generosity, our field should now engage with much less timidity with the issue of Palestine/Israel.
(Bart Moore-Gilbert Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies )
Rose's highly provocative work raises many important problems and provides many useful insights.
(Laurence J. Silberstein International History Review )
Rose's book has the merit of probing the problematic liaison in the Jewish state between nationalism and religion, on the one hand, and national myth and political reality, on the other. From the perspective of the study of her religion, her book challenges us to pay heed to the fundamental conceptual difference between (religious) redemption and (national) liberation.
(Martina Urban Journal of Religion )
Presents a revisionist appraisal of the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict and concludes that Israel is in danger of destroying itself.
(Sheldon Kirshner Canadian Jewish News )
Rose asks the right questions: is it possible to talk about the suffering of the Jewish people and the violence of the Israeli state in the same breadth? Why is criticism of Israel construed as a denial of the Jewish people's right to self-defense? Can any state act with impunity on grounds of self-defense? And finally, if part of the messianic view of world history is that 'it is part of the cosmic order of things that the nation must live on a knife's edge,' as her analysis suggests, is it possible for there to be peace?
(Cynthia Hoffman Tikkun )
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Jacqueline Rose proposes a suggestive analysis of a communal neurosis gripping Israel. Her examination . . . is topical and important.
(Amos Elon, author of "The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933". )
(Amos Elon, author of "The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933". )
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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I read this book at the beginning of 2008. This is a very refreshing and honest look at the ideology of Zionism by a Jewish woman, who deeply cares about the trauma and pain suffered by fellow Jews, but who cannot accept the violence perpetrated towards another people entailed in the Zionist project using past suffering as a justification.
At the time I did not post a review, but when I happened to come across the two people above who gave Rose one star and accused her of telling lies and posted this as a 'review' I had to respond.
I thank robin hood for his review. I agree wholeheartedly with what he said.
I respect people if they have a reasoned critique. This stimulates debate. But I find the kind of anti-intellectual hostile rants as produced by Messrs. Myerson and A Kids Review frankly disgusting.
Read my comment under A Kids Review. A simple check in Rose's book made clear that he was telling a lie. S. Wood, thank you for your excellent response to Myerson.
At the time I did not post a review, but when I happened to come across the two people above who gave Rose one star and accused her of telling lies and posted this as a 'review' I had to respond.
I thank robin hood for his review. I agree wholeheartedly with what he said.
I respect people if they have a reasoned critique. This stimulates debate. But I find the kind of anti-intellectual hostile rants as produced by Messrs. Myerson and A Kids Review frankly disgusting.
Read my comment under A Kids Review. A simple check in Rose's book made clear that he was telling a lie. S. Wood, thank you for your excellent response to Myerson.
17 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I couldn't believe the review posted here previous to mine. I have just purchased this book and I am very glad I did. I think the reviewer who gave it one star is either biased against discussing certainthings, or simply didn't understand the book. It is not the kind of book that preaches at anyone. Nor is it either the kind of book that begins with a message and then sets out to prove it. Instead, it begins with a question and sets out to explore that question.
The writer does this in a very intelligent and literate way, with many illuminating quotations and ideas referenced as she explores the question. It broadens its topic, instead of reducing it to a set of arguments. This is partly why it is so illuminating. The writer herself is Jewish and genuinely concerned for Isreal. She believes that Zionism emerged out of the legitimate desire of a persecued people for a homeland.
The only critism I would have is that the cover could have been better designed but that is not the author's fault.
The author has clearly thought about her subject very deeply and bravely and she deserves better readers than those who will flick through to see if the book conforms to certain shibboleths or not. It is a book that illuminates issues that are pertinent to any individual, so deep is its psycholgical analysis. I was very impressed and will return to it many times.
The writer does this in a very intelligent and literate way, with many illuminating quotations and ideas referenced as she explores the question. It broadens its topic, instead of reducing it to a set of arguments. This is partly why it is so illuminating. The writer herself is Jewish and genuinely concerned for Isreal. She believes that Zionism emerged out of the legitimate desire of a persecued people for a homeland.
The only critism I would have is that the cover could have been better designed but that is not the author's fault.
The author has clearly thought about her subject very deeply and bravely and she deserves better readers than those who will flick through to see if the book conforms to certain shibboleths or not. It is a book that illuminates issues that are pertinent to any individual, so deep is its psycholgical analysis. I was very impressed and will return to it many times.
3 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a book literally packed with factual errors. It makes some noise about the differences between the Penteuch and the Tanach, except they are the same thing just one is the greek name and one is hebrew. We also have a recounting of a speech by made Jabotinsky on the eve of the 1948 war which is a pretty impressive feat given he died in 1940. Needless to say, given she can't get even basic, indisputable facts right that her analysis is shot to pieces.
I guess she is lucky to have written a book in a field where poor scholarship, a contempt for facts and out and out fraud is widely accepted and doubly lucky to be Jewish so she can jump on the "Jews against Zionism" bandwagon, the latter day useful idiots of such bastions of human rights as Syria, Iran, Pakistan, Hizbollah controlled Lebanon and Hamas controlled Gaza. The bottom line is that if you are already hopelessly biased against Israel then you are going to have your prejudices confirmed and what little she does say is clearly false - unless you also believe in ghosts.
I guess she is lucky to have written a book in a field where poor scholarship, a contempt for facts and out and out fraud is widely accepted and doubly lucky to be Jewish so she can jump on the "Jews against Zionism" bandwagon, the latter day useful idiots of such bastions of human rights as Syria, Iran, Pakistan, Hizbollah controlled Lebanon and Hamas controlled Gaza. The bottom line is that if you are already hopelessly biased against Israel then you are going to have your prejudices confirmed and what little she does say is clearly false - unless you also believe in ghosts.
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