The Hudson Review, July 1st, 2002
It occasionally happens that a book written to explain an earlier age takes on a new and startling relevance in a later one. This is the case with George Eliot's last and most ambitious novel, Daniel Deronda. Published in parts between 1873 and 1876, the novel not only anticipates the creation of the state of Israel some seventyfive years later, it also supplies a vocabulary with which to talk about Israel's situation as it has evolved into the present. It is a book that needs to be read by anyone interested in the moral difficulties facing Israel today and, more broadly, the difficulties inhe...
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