http://inventionofthejewishpeople.com by Shlomo Sand Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:13:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://inventionofthejewishpeople.com/reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-76 A Book by Shlomo Sand Calls Jewish People an ‘Invention’ – NYTimes.com « Gnostalgia Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:50:48 +0000 http://inventionofthejewishpeople.com/?page_id=27#comment-76 [...] version of his polemic has sparked a new wave of coverage in Britain and has provoked spirited debates online and in seminar [...] [...] version of his polemic has sparked a new wave of coverage in Britain and has provoked spirited debates online and in seminar [...]

]]> http://inventionofthejewishpeople.com/reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Anniversaires: Les sionistes ont même inventé l’Amérique! (The Zionists even invented America!) « jcdurbant Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:52:14 +0000 http://inventionofthejewishpeople.com/?page_id=27#comment-71 [...] Shlomo Sand has written a remarkable book. In cool, scholarly prose he has, quite simply, normalized Jewish history. In place of the implausible myth of a unique nation with a special destiny – expelled, isolated, wandering and finally restored to its rightful home – he has reconstructed the history of the Jews and convincingly reintegrated that history into the general story of humankind. The self-serving and mostly imaginary Jewish past that has done so much to provoke conflict in the present is revealed, like the past of so many other nations, to be largely an invention. Tony Judt [...] [...] Shlomo Sand has written a remarkable book. In cool, scholarly prose he has, quite simply, normalized Jewish history. In place of the implausible myth of a unique nation with a special destiny – expelled, isolated, wandering and finally restored to its rightful home – he has reconstructed the history of the Jews and convincingly reintegrated that history into the general story of humankind. The self-serving and mostly imaginary Jewish past that has done so much to provoke conflict in the present is revealed, like the past of so many other nations, to be largely an invention. Tony Judt [...]

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