The Invention of the Jewish People
Published on 14. June 2010
368 pages
978-1-78168-362-0 (ISBN)
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A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered across the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
In this iconoclastic work, which spent nineteen weeks on the Israeli bestseller list and won the coveted Aujourd'hui Award in France, Sand provides the intellectual foundations for a new vision of Israel's future.
In this iconoclastic work, which spent nineteen weeks on the Israeli bestseller list and won the coveted Aujourd'hui Award in France, Sand provides the intellectual foundations for a new vision of Israel's future.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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978-1-78168-362-0 (9781781683620)
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Shlomo Sand teaches Contemporary History at the University of Tel Aviv. His books include The Invention of the Jewish People, On the Nation and the Jewish People, How I Stopped Being a Jew, The Invention of the Land of Israel, and Twilight of History.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the English-Language Edition
- Preface to the 2020 Edition: Ten Years Later
- Introduction: Burdens of Memory
- Identity in Movement
- Constructed Memories
- 1. Making Nations: Sovereignty and Equality
- Lexicon: "People" and Ethnos
- The Nation: Boundaries and Definitions
- From Ideology to Identity
- From Ethnic Myth to Civil Imaginary
- The Intellectual as the Nation's "Prince"
- 2. Mythistory: In the Beginning, God Created the People
- The Early Shaping of Jewish History
- The Old Testament as Mythistory
- Race and Nation
- A Historians' Dispute
- A Protonationalist View from the East
- An Ethnicist Stage in the West
- The First Steps of Historiography in Zion
- Politics and Archaeology
- The Earth Rebels against Mythistory
- The Bible as Metaphor
- 3. The Invention of the Exile: Proselytism and Conversion
- The "People" Exiled in 70 ce
- Exile without Expulsion-History in the Twilight Zone
- Against Its Will, the People Emigrate from the Homeland
- "All Nations Shall Flow Unto It"
- The Hasmoneans Impose Judaism on Their Neighbors
- From Hellenistic Sphere to Mesopotamian Territory
- Judaizing in the Shadow of Rome
- How Rabbinical Judaism Viewed Proselytizing
- The Sad Fate of the Judeans
- Remembering and Forgetting the "People of the Land"
- 4. Realms of Silence: In Search of Lost (Jewish) Time
- Arabia Felix: The Proselytized Kingdom of Himyar
- Phoenicians and Berbers: The Mysterious Queen Kahina
- Jewish Kagans? A Strange Empire Rises in the East
- Khazars and Judaism: A Long Love Affair?
- Modern Research Explores the Khazar Past
- The Enigma: The Origin of Eastern Europe's Jews
- 5. The Distinction: Identity Politics in Israel
- Zionism and Heredity
- The Scientific Puppet and the Racist Hunchback
- Founding an Ethnos State
- "Jewish and Democratic"-An Oxymoron?
- Ethnocracy in the Age of Globalization
- Afterword
- "The Jews Have Always Existed as a People"
- Exile and Historical Memory
- Are the Palestinians the Descendants of the Ancient Jews?
- The Last Resort: A Jewish DNA
- Converts, Khazars and Historians
- Denying the Existence of an Israeli People
- Ethnic Nationality and the State of Israel
- Acknowledgments
- Index
