02456cam a2200493 a 4500 92900 20230410103904.0 100719s2010 enk b 001 0 eng 2010280072 (OCoLC)ocn464580206 UKM UKM DLC BTCTA YDXCP GZM C#P BTN GBB037671 bnb 015505978 Uk 9781844676231 (pbk.) 1844676234 (pbk.) (OCoLC)464580206 eng heb lccopycat 416 DS 143 S213i 2010 305.8924 GRAL Sand, Shlomo, 1946- Matai òve-ekh humtsa ha-°am ha-Yehudi? English The invention of the Jewish people / Shlomo Sand ; translated by Yael Lotan. Pbk. ed. London ; New York : Verso, 2010. xi, 344 p. ; 21 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Originally published: 2009. Translated from the Hebrew. All modern nation states have a story of their origins, passed down through both official and popular culture, and yet few of these accounts have proved as divisive and influential as the Israeli national myth. The well-known tale of Jewish exile at the hands of the Romans during the first century CE, and the assertion of both cultural and racial continuity through to the Jewish people of the present day, resonates far beyond Israel's borders. Despite its use as a justification for Jewish settlement in Palestine and the project of a Greater Israel, there have been few scholarly investigations into the historical accuracy of the story as a whole. Here, Shlomo Sand shows that the Israeli national myth has its origins in the nineteenth century, rather than in biblical times--when Jewish historians, like scholars in many other cultures, reconstituted an imagined people in order to model a future nation.--From publisher description Jews Identity History. Jews Identity Historiography. Nation-building Israel. Judaism History. Jewish diaspora History. Jews History. Judíos Identidad Historia. Baker and Taylor BTCP BK0008629045 YBP Library Services YANK 3154680 lcc bk C0 DRFGD JP 27802 27802 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2023-04-10 1 0 416 DS 143 S213i 2010 00000086441 2018-10-23 00:00:00 1 2018-10-23 bk