The Invention of the Land of Israel
From Holy Land to Homeland
Published on 30. September 2013
304 pages
978-1-78168-447-4 (ISBN)
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What is a homeland? When does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land?
Following the acclaimed and controversial The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious sacred land that has become the site of the longest-running national struggle of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Invention of the Land of Israel deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the Holy Land and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it. The invention of the modern concept of the "Land of Israel" in the nineteenth century, he argues, not only facilitated the colonization of the Middle East and the establishment of the State of Israel, it is also what is threatening Israel's existence today.
Following the acclaimed and controversial The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious sacred land that has become the site of the longest-running national struggle of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Invention of the Land of Israel deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the Holy Land and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it. The invention of the modern concept of the "Land of Israel" in the nineteenth century, he argues, not only facilitated the colonization of the Middle East and the establishment of the State of Israel, it is also what is threatening Israel's existence today.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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978-1-78168-447-4 (9781781684474)
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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 Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION: BANAL MURDER AND TOPONYMY
- Memories from an Ancestral Land
- Rights to an Ancestral Land
- Names of an Ancestral Land
- 1. MAKING HOMELANDS: BIOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE OR NATIONAL PROPERTY?
- The Homeland-A Natural Living Space?
- Place of Birth or Civil Community?
- Territorialization of the National Entity
- Borders as Boundaries of Spatial Property
- 2. MYTHERRITORY: IN THE BEGINNING, GOD PROMISED THE LAND
- Gifted Theologians Bestow a Land upon Themselves
- From the Land of Canaan to the Land of Judea
- The Land of Israel in Jewish Religious Legal Literature
- "Diaspora" and Yearning for the Holy Land
- 3. TOWARD A CHRISTIAN ZIONISM: AND BALFOUR PROMISED THE LAND
- Pilgrimage after the Destruction: A Jewish Ritual?
- Sacred Geography and Journeys in the Land of Jesus
- From Puritan Reformation to Evangelicalism
- Protestants and the Colonization of the Middle East
- 4. ZIONISM VERSUS JUDAISM: THE CONQUEST OF "ETHNIC" SPACE
- Judaism's Response to the Invention of the Homeland
- Historical Right and the Ownership of Territory
- Zionist Geopolitics and the Redemption of the Land
- From Internal Settlement to External Colonization
- 5. CONCLUSION: THE SAD TALE OF THE FROG AND THE SCORPION
- AFTERWORD: IN MEMORY OF A VILLAGE
- Forgetting the Land
- A Land of Forgetting
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX
- Copyright
