Ebook {Epub PDF} The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand

 · Shlomo Sand's 'The Invention of the Jewish People' Is a Success for Israel. Some may be surprised to find that Sand's goal is to preserve Israel as a democracy with a Jewish character.  · The book by Shlomo Sand, which mixes respected scholarship with dubious theories, spent months on the best-seller list in Israel and is now available in English.  · In fact, one can assume that any book attacking the idea of Jewish nationalism will gain a following (and even garner awards), regardless of how preposterous the underlying thesis. Such is the case with “The Invention of the Jewish People,” a book by Shlomo Sand who teaches French history at Tel Aviv University.

Sand is a professor at Tel Aviv university and author of The Invention of the Jewish People. His quiet earthquake of a book is shaking historical faith in the link between Judaism and Israel. The Invention of the Jewish People By Shlomo Sand Translated by Yael Lotan Verso £, pages FT Bookshop price: £ Shlomo Sand's 'The Invention of the Jewish People' Is a Success for Israel. Some may be surprised to find that Sand's goal is to preserve Israel as a democracy with a Jewish character.

"Shlomo Sand's 'The Invention of the Jewish People' is a success for Israel". Retrieved 18 February ^ The Invention of the Jewish People Archived at the Wayback Machine, English Edition (Verso Books, ) ^ Die Erfindung des jüdischen Volkes: Israels Gründungsmythos auf dem Prüfstand. Propyläen. ISBN Writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Josh Fischman commented that Sand's argument in The Invention of the Jewish People that Jews arose from multiple conversions among various communities in Europe and elsewhere contradicted work by Harry Ostrer which argued that "geographically and culturally distant Jews still have more genes in common than they do with non-Jews around them," and that such genes were of Levantine origin," including the area where modern Israel is situated. Ostrer. 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.