In the Observer‘s Books of the year 2009, historian Eric Hobsbawm selects Shlomo Sand’s Invention of the Jewish People 
as one of his books of the year:
Shlomo Sand’s The Invention of the Jewish People (Verso) is both a welcome and, in the case of Israel, much needed exercise in the dismantling of nationalist historical myth and a plea for an Israel that belongs equally to all its inhabitants. Perhaps books combining passion and erudition don’t change political situations, but if they did, this one would count as a landmark.
