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Historian [[Anthony Pagden]] used the story in his 2008 book ''Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West'', explaining that its implication was "that the Zionist should attempt to marry someone else".<ref>Anthony Pagden, ''Worlds at War'' (Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 419.</ref> The phrase has been cited as an 1890s cable in books written by [[P. J. O'Rourke]]<ref>''Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism'', 2005, p. 55</ref> and [[Adam LeBor]],<ref>''City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa'' 2011</ref> and provided the title of the books ''Married to Another Man'' (2007) by [[Ghada Karmi]]<ref>Martin Woollacott, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/sep/15/politics1 Joined-up Solution]", ''[[The Guardian]]'', Sept. 14, 2007.</ref> and (in Swedish) ''Bruden är vacker men har redan en man'' by Ingmar Karlsson (Wahlström Widstrand, 2012). |
Historian [[Anthony Pagden]] used the story in his 2008 book ''Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West'', explaining that its implication was "that the Zionist should attempt to marry someone else".<ref>Anthony Pagden, ''Worlds at War'' (Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 419.</ref> The phrase has been cited as an 1890s cable in books written by [[P. J. O'Rourke]]<ref>''Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism'', 2005, p. 55</ref> and [[Adam LeBor]],<ref>''City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa'' 2011</ref> and provided the title of the books ''Married to Another Man'' (2007) by [[Ghada Karmi]]<ref>Martin Woollacott, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/sep/15/politics1 Joined-up Solution]", ''[[The Guardian]]'', Sept. 14, 2007.</ref> and (in Swedish) ''Bruden är vacker men har redan en man'' by Ingmar Karlsson (Wahlström Widstrand, 2012). |
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In 2012 an article by Shai Afsai was published in an academic journal proposing that the quotation is a modern fabrication. Afsai writes that he contacted several scholars who used the quotation but that none were able to provide a primary source for it.<ref>Shai Afsai, “The bride is beautiful, but she is married to another man”: Historical Fabrication and an Anti-Zionist Myth", ''Shofar'', Vol. 30, No. 3 (2012), pp. 35-61.</ref> |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
Revision as of 09:27, 6 October 2012
"The bride is beautiful, but she is married to another man" is a quotation that has been cited by scholars and publications as the text of a cable sent by a Jewish fact-finding mission to Palestine in the 1890s. It is generally taken as an early but ignored recognition that a Jewish homeland could not be established in Palestine without infringing the rights of the existing population.[1]
Historian Anthony Pagden used the story in his 2008 book Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West, explaining that its implication was "that the Zionist should attempt to marry someone else".[2] The phrase has been cited as an 1890s cable in books written by P. J. O'Rourke[3] and Adam LeBor,[4] and provided the title of the books Married to Another Man (2007) by Ghada Karmi[5] and (in Swedish) Bruden är vacker men har redan en man by Ingmar Karlsson (Wahlström Widstrand, 2012).
See also
- Azzam Pasha quotation
- Alleged Ouze Merham interview of Ariel Sharon
- A land without a people for a people without a land
References
- ^ David Broman, "Que cesse l'occupation militaire!", Le Jeudi 22 January 2009.
- ^ Anthony Pagden, Worlds at War (Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 419.
- ^ Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism, 2005, p. 55
- ^ City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa 2011
- ^ Martin Woollacott, "Joined-up Solution", The Guardian, Sept. 14, 2007.