This article looks at Grace Aguilar (1816–1847), a well-known Anglo-Jewish author, as a religious Zionist, and it analyzes Aguilar’s work in order to challenge three scholarly assumptions about the history of Zionism: first, that British Jews have never genuinely supported Zionism; second, that Zionism did not exist before Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism; and third, that Jewish women rarely voiced Zionist ideas before the establishment of the State of Israel. Aguilar, an Anglo-Jewish woman writer who published during the mid-Victorian period, espoused orthodox views about the Jews’ restoration to Palestine. Aguilar’s belief in the biblical precept of Jewish nationhood was a precursor to the thought of later Zionists such as Herzl, as well as the convictions of religious Zionists such as Rav Kook. Her religious nationalism provides an important counterpoint to scholarly claims that Victorian Jews identified only as British, as no different than their Christian neighbors. Instead, Aguilar characterizes the Jews as a nation apart, a people bound together by an ancient religion with roots and a future in Palestine.

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寻找锡安

本文将著名的英裔犹太作家格蕾丝·阿吉拉尔（Grace Aguilar，1816-1847 年）视为一名宗教犹太复国主义者，并分析了阿吉拉尔的作品，以挑战关于犹太复国主义历史的三个学术假设：首先，英国犹太人拥有从未真正支持犹太复国主义；第二，在政治犹太复国主义的创始人西奥多·赫茨尔之前，犹太复国主义并不存在；第三，在以色列建国之前，犹太妇女很少表达犹太复国主义思想。阿吉拉尔 (Aguilar) 是一位在维多利亚时代中期出版的英裔犹太女作家，她支持关于犹太人重返巴勒斯坦的正统观点。阿吉拉尔对犹太民族的圣经戒律的信仰是后来的犹太复国主义者如赫茨尔思想的先驱，以及宗教犹太复国主义者如拉夫库克的信念。她的宗教民族主义与学术上的说法形成了重要的对比，即维多利亚时代的犹太人仅将英国人视为英国人，与他们的基督教邻居没有什么不同。相反，阿吉拉尔将犹太人描述为一个独立的民族，一个被古老宗教联系在一起的民族，其根源和未来都在巴勒斯坦。