A Diverse Collection of Peoples
Daniel Lazare: Shlomo Sand v. Zionism, 20 June 2013
The Invention of the Jewish People
by Shlomo Sand.
Verso, 344 pp., £9.99, June 2010,978 1 84467 623 1 Show More
by Shlomo Sand.
Verso, 344 pp., £9.99, June 2010,
The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland
by Shlomo Sand.
Verso, 295 pp., £16.99, January 2013,978 1 84467 946 1 Show More
by Shlomo Sand.
Verso, 295 pp., £16.99, January 2013,
“... the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, issued in Tel Aviv on 14 May 1948. Shlomo Sand’s last two books have questioned the document’s assumptions: were the Jews ‘forcibly exiled’ or did they go abroad in search of new opportunities? If they ‘never ceased to pray and hope for their return’, why did so few bother to ... ”