Daniel Lazare

Daniel Lazare used to write about the US constitution; now he writes about the Bible and the Quran. He is completing a comparative political study of Judaism, Christianity and Islam for Pantheon.

Letter

A Diverse Collection of Peoples

20 June 2013

Daniel Lazare writes: Shlomo Sand accuses me of numerous factual errors, but doesn’t say what they are. He insists that my quotation from The Invention of the Jewish People is misleading because it is part of a passage in which he presents ‘precisely the opposite argument’: that the dispersion thesis is incorrect and that Judaism is really the result ‘of a dynamic process of conversion’....

A Diverse Collection of Peoples: Shlomo Sand v. Zionism

Daniel Lazare, 20 June 2013

The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books. After being forcibly exiled from their land, the people kept faith with it throughout their Dispersion and never...

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