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A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, __The Invention of the Jewish People__ offers a new account of both that demands to be read and reckoned with. Was there really a forced exile in the first century, at the hands of the Romans? Should we regard the Jewish people, throughout two millennia, as both a distinct ethnic group and a putative nation—returned at last to its Biblical homeland?Shlomo Sand argues that most Jews actually descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered far across the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The formation of a Jewish people and then a Jewish nation out of these disparate groups could only take place under the sway of a new historiography, developing in response to the rise of nationalism throughout Europe. Beneath the biblical back fill of the nineteenth-century historians, and the twentieth-century intellectuals who replaced rabbis as the architects of Jewish identity, __The Invention of the Jewish People__ uncovers a new narrative of Israel’s formation, and proposes a bold analysis of nationalism that accounts for the old myths.After a long stay on Israel’s bestseller

Who reads The Invention of the Jewish People (2009)?

Author

SAND, Shlomo

Publisher

Verso Books

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781844674985

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Religion, Sociology

Rating

4.1 / 5 (536 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14