Hardcover: 344 pages
Publisher: Verso (19 Oct 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1844674223
ISBN-13: 978-1844674220
Review by By Jim Miles
The Invention of the Jewish People. Shlomo Sand. Verso, New York, 2009.
Historians living within their own nations develop within the mythology peculiar to their nation, in which "various spheres of memory coalesced into an imagined universe representing the past." The historian is a combination of his own personal experiences and the larger societal "instilled memories." Recognizing that, Shlomo Sand very capably steps away from the created mythology of Israel, of the national myth of the wandering people for two thousand years before finding home again, in a land that belonged only to that people even though others had lived there during the same two thousand years. The Invention of the Jewish People is his groundbreaking historical study of the nature of the Jewish "nation" and its created mythologies.












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