The Invention of the Jewish People

from jensenmk82

This book argues that despite its claims, Zionism has produced in the Israeli state not a democracy, but a "liberal ethnocracy" (307) based on fictitious claims about "the Jewish people" that derive from a "nationalization of the Bible and its transformation into a reliable history book" that too...

from jensenmk82

This book argues that despite its claims, Zionism has produced in the Israeli state not a democracy, but a "liberal ethnocracy" (307) based on fictitious claims about "the Jewish people" that derive from a "nationalization of the Bible and its transformation into a reliable history book" that too...

from rajaratnam

A very informative book which raises a serious question: what does this do to the claim by Israelis that the land they occupy is somehow their 'right'? Since so little is reliably known about the movements of the various tribes of mankind (that is, according to their ethnicities) through the surf...

from deebee1

Shlomo Sand is a scholar, and a brave man. He takes on a most daunting and difficult task -- to challenge the myth of the Jewish identity. In this book, he takes down the myth piece by fabricated piece, block by invented block on which the Jewish ethnos is based and at the same time irrevocably d...

from Devil_llama

The author sets out to explain how the Jews went from being people to being "a people". It's an intriguing walk through history by a man who doesn't set out to be for or against the Jews. His only objective is understanding the history, and he does a good job of exploring a touchy topic.