TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sand,Shlomo
TI  - The invention of the Jewish people
SN  - 9781844676231 (pbk.)
AV  - 416 DS 143 S213i 2010
U1  - 305.8924 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Verso
KW  - Jews
KW  - Identity
KW  - History
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Nation-building
KW  - Israel
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Jewish diaspora
KW  - Judíos
KW  - Identidad
KW  - Historia
N1  - Originally published: 2009; Translated from the Hebrew; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -