The Invention of the Jewish People
By Shlomo Sand & Yael Lotan
- Title: The Invention of the Jewish People
- By: Shlomo Sand & Yael Lotan
- Release Date: 2009-10-19
- Genre: Middle Eastern History
Ratings: 4.5 From 15 Reviews
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A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered across the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
In this iconoclastic work, which spent nineteen weeks on the Israeli bestseller list and won the coveted Aujourd’hui Award in France, Sand provides the intellectual foundations for a new vision of Israel’s future.