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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

"Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person's camp in Austria, to a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a "secular Jew." With this meditative and thoughtful mixture of essay and personal recollection, he articulates the problems at the center of modern Jewish identity. How I Stopped Being a Jew discusses the negative effects of the Israeli exploitation of the "chosen people" myth and its "holocaust industry." Sand criticizes the fact that, in the current context, what "Jewish" means is, above all, not being Arab and reflects on the possibility of a secular, non-exclusive Israeli identity, beyond the legends of Zionism"

Preface / Shlomo Sand -- The unclassifiable Renan / Shlomo Sand -- What is a nation? / Ernest Renan -- Judaism as race and religion / Ernest Renan

הערות על כתיבה סובייקטיבית -- בלימת ההתגיירות היהודית -- 'עם גזע' גולה או קהילות דת? -- תחילת אירופה היודו-נוצרית -- זרים בהומניזם - מארסמוס לוולטר -- מהפכה, אמנציפציה ולאומיות -- היהודים בין קפיטליזם לסוציאליזם -- הגזעה, דמוקרטיזציה והגירה -- פרשת דרייפוס והולדת הציונות -- השמדת 'עם-הגזע' היהודי -- תקומת 'עם-הגזע' היהודי? -- מיהו יהודי? מטביעת אצבעות לדנ"א -- מלחמת 1967 - 'זכות אבות' -- האם היודופוביה המסורתית נסוגה? -- אנטי-ציונות: 'אנטישמיות' חדשה? ‬

""Internationally acclaimed Israeli historian Shlomo Sand made his mark with books such as The Invention of the Jewish People and The Invention of the Land of Israel. Returning here to an early fascination, he turns his attention to the figure of the French intellectual. From his student years in Paris, Sand has throughout his life come up against the 'great French thinkers'. He has an intimate knowledge of the Parisian intellectual world and its little secrets, on which he draws to overturn certain myths attaching to the figure of the 'intellectual' that France prides itself on having invented. Mixing reminiscence and analysis, he revisits a history that, from the Dreyfus Affair through to Charlie Hebdo, seems to him that of a long decline. As a long-time admirer of Zola, Sartre and Camus, Sand is staggered to see what the French intellectual has become today, in such characters as Michel Houellebecq, Éric Zemmour and Alain Finkielkraut. In a work that gives no quarter, and focuses particularly on the Judeophobia and Islamophobia of the 'elites', he casts on the French intellectual scene a gaze that is both disabused and sarcastic."--Provided by publisher

Klappentext: Gibt es ein jüdisches Volk? Nein, sagt der israelische Historiker Shlomo Sand und stellt damit den Gründungsmythos Israels radikal in Frage. Vertreibung durch die Römer? Exodus? Rückkehr nach 2000 Jahren ins Land der Väter? Alles Erfindungen europäischer Zionisten im 19. Jahrhundert, schreibt Sand in seinem aufsehenerregenden Buch, das in Israel und Frankreich zum Bestseller wurde und heftige Kontroversen ausgelöst hat.

Der israelische Historiker (geboren 1946) setzt sich kritisch mit der eigenen Identität, mit seinem Verhältnis zum Judentum und zum jüdischen Staat auseinander. Als säkularer Atheist plädiert er für eine israelische Identität, die nicht auf jüdischer Exklusivität basiert