The Invention of the Jewish People — by Shlomo Sand

Writer and musician Gilad Atzmon reviews ‘The Invention of the Jewish People’

October 26, 2009

Tel Aviv University historian, Professor Shlomo Sand, opens his remarkable study of Jewish nationalism quoting Karl W. Deutsch:
“A nation is a group of people united by a common mistake regarding its origin and a collective hostility towards its neighbours”.
As simple or even simplistic as it may sound, the quote above eloquently summarises the figment of [...]

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The Electronic Intifada reviews Invention of the Jewish People

October 23, 2009

Raymond Deane, The Electronic Intifada, 22 October 2009
In 1967 the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish published his poem “A Soldier Dreaming of White Lilies,” only to be accused of “collaboration with the Zionist enemy” for his sympathetic depiction of an Israeli soldier’s remorse of conscience. Forty years later that soldier has identified himself as the historian Shlomo [...]

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NYU News Interview: ‘The new history of the origins of the Jews’

October 22, 2009

By Aaron Leonard
Tel Aviv University professor Shlomo Sand recently spoke at NYU about his newly translated book “The Invention of the Jewish People,” a book that challenges conventional wisdom and deeply entrenched myths about the foundations of the state of Israel.
Among the revelations in the book is the fact that the ancient kingdoms of Solomon [...]

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Shlomo Sand’s ‘The Invention of the Jewish People,’ reviewed by Jack Ross

October 22, 2009

By Jack Ross, From Mondoweiss.
Last Spring, I asked my father over dinner why it was such an outrageous proposition, leaving aside whether or not true, that Judaism is solely a matter of confession, as opposed to an ethnonational identity. He answered with some trepidation “because it contradicts 2,000 years of history.” When I went on [...]

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Shlomo Sand: ‘There are Israeli, not Jewish people’

October 21, 2009

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At NYU, devilish Shlomo Sand predicts the Jewish past and pastes the Zionists

October 20, 2009

By Philip Weiss from Mondoweiss.

Of all the events I’ve covered surrounding Jewish identity and Israel in the last year, none has given me so much pleasure as the lecture last night by Shlomo Sand at NYU on the Invention of the Jewish People. Most events I go to are grinding, awful, heartrending; often with lamentations and [...]

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Shlomo Sand on Ethnocentrism in Israel

October 20, 2009

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A Riveting Lecture, Dully Described

October 19, 2009

From NYU News:
Last Friday’s monthly Marxist Theory Colloquium featured Tel Aviv University history professor Shlomo Sand. He discussed his controversial book, “The Invention of the Jewish People,” which proposes that the majority of accepted Jewish history is incorrect.
NYU politics professor Bertell Ollman invited Sand to speak at the colloquium after he learned Sand had come [...]

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