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Look inside this book.The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by [Shlomo Sand, Geremy Forman]
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Groundbreaking new work from the controversial author of Invention of the Jewish People.
What is a homeland and 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. Sand’s account dissects the concept of “historical right” and tracks the creation of the modern concept of the “Land of Israel” by nineteenth-century Evangelical Protestants and Jewish Zionists. This invention, he argues, not only facilitated the colonization of the Middle East and the establishment of the State of Israel; it is also threatening the existence of the Jewish state today.
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Groundbreaking new work from the controversial author of Invention of the Jewish People.
What is a homeland and 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. Sand’s account dissects the concept of “historical right” and tracks the creation of the modern concept of the “Land of Israel” by nineteenth-century Evangelical Protestants and Jewish Zionists. This invention, he argues, not only facilitated the colonization of the Middle East and the establishment of the State of Israel; it is also threatening the existence of the Jewish state today.
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"Anyone interested in understanding the contemporary Middle East should read this book."--Tony Judt, In praise of The Invention of the Jewish People
"Perhaps books combining passion and erudition don't change political situations, but if they did, this one would count as a landmark."--Eric Hobsbawm, In praise of The Invention of the Jewish People
"A thought-provoking, readable, and important work."--Publisher's Weekly
..". there is much to enjoy and learn in the evidence in the potentially incendiary material [Shlomo Sand] assembles here."--Electronic Intifada
"[Sand] critically consider the ways in which the Zionist colonization of Palestine and the establishment of the State of Israel have been justified by claims of ancestral lands, historical rights, and millennia-old national yearnings, all of which he proceeds to critically undermine as either justifiable reasons for mastery over the land of Palestine/Israel or even representative of longstanding mass Jewish aspirations."--Book News
"This groundbreaking new historical work from a highly controversial author undoes the myth of the Jewish people's historical right to the 'Land of Israel.'"--SirReadaLot.org --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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A groundbreaking new work from the controversial author of The Invention of the Jewish People --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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SHLOMO SAND studied history at the University of Tel Aviv and at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, in Paris. He currently teaches contemporary history at the University of Tel Aviv. His books include The Invention of the Jewish People and On the Nation and the Jewish People --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Open Your Eyes and Mind.
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Sand opens this work with a look at what the critics said about his earlier “Invention of the Jewish People”. It seems instructive that those critics were secular scholars adamant that historical Jews were a unique people, exceptional and “immune to comparison”. In any other context such analysis should make us recoil in horror. Such views only prevail in the modern era if most people believe in the literal truth of Biblical exile. Sand claims these scholars know it is a myth but none are willing to admit that this emperor has no clothes. The ethnic inheritors of the land of Israel were the people who have lived there for two thousand years. They may have converted to Islam hundreds of years ago but they have occupied that land for longer. What happened in 1948 was good old-fashioned, white-man’s, colonialism. It happened, ironically, right at the point in history when colonialism was in its death throes. The people who now own that land never originated there, indeed, even the Biblical Hebrews were from Babylonia. In essence, the true inheritors of Israel never left. Where else in history, asks Sand, is there a precedent for such theft? Should the Arabs return to Spain and convert it to an Islamic nation? Maybe the Puritans should return to England?
The first section of the book deals with Biblical history. Unless you are steeped in Jewish Biblical history then this theological trawl is tough going. The book becomes a bit more easy-going when Sand moves on to the history of the Holy Land in the period after that. Clearly the Jewish people did NOT spend two thousand years yearning to return to Israel. If they had wanted that then there was not much to stop them. Yet for two thousand years the Jewish people chose far more comfortable homes. Judaism also enjoyed no history of pilgrimage. The religion forbade such a return: it was a redemption that should not be hurried. In other words, it was a sin. Myths of exile and return was conjured up by British Evangelical Christians in the 18th and 19th centuries who believed the return of the Jews to the Holy Land was a necessary precursor to Christian redemption. Their vision included the final conversion of returning Jews to Christianity. Most Jews in Germany, Britain and France, at this time, were busy integrating into mainstream society. It was the rise of nationalistic anti-Semitic pogroms in Eastern Europe at this time that drove Jewish refugees westward. This tsunami created ethnic tensions in which neither secular Jews nor Christians wanted the devout Jews in their country. The solution was the return to Israel. Zionism was a modern invention. It was given power by an illiberal response to an influx of unwanted people. Few cared that the land of Palestine already had a people and any Jewish return en masse would spell catastrophe. Yet the story of the exile and return “emerged as historical axiom, neither to be researched nor questioned”. The final occupation of Palestine proved to be a violent, unjust and racist. Zionists forbade any interactions with the local Arabs population at a time in the 1930s when Germany was likewise forbidding interaction with Jews. Other solutions may have been possible but Sand fears that Israel is now beyond a point of no return and only disaster awaits. He is a brave man to say so. If he was not a Hebrew scholar working at the University of Tel Aviv then it is highly unlikely that such a book would be published. No such heresy would be tolerated in our society by a Gentile. Food for thought.
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5.0 out of 5 stars At last some insight into Israels behaviour in their treatment ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 April 2018
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At last some insight into Israels behaviour in their treatment of their fellow Semites the Palestinians.An article published n Elservier the medical journal which publishes the Lancet showed that the descendants of the fifty thousand Jews living in Palestine in the year 1900 and the present day Palestinians were in fact the same race,their DNA is the same,not surprising they had lived together for thousands of years.As to their being the only democracy in the middle east.Hitler was elected democratily.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Bamboo socks
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 December 2018
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Warm and comfortable but do not last long
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Hunnie
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully and well written book. Highly Recommend
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 April 2016
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Beautifully and well written book. I loved every page.
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Renato Corsetti
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and to read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 June 2016
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Very interesting! The author is too rational and he gives not much value to the collective identity feeling, even if it is based on false ideas. The unconditional supporters of Israel should read it.
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