| Edition |
Paperback edition. |
| Description |
viii, 295 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Note |
Originally published as Matai ve'ekh humtzea eretz Israel? [When and how the land of Israel was invented?]. This translation first published in 2012. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Language |
Translated from the Hebrew. |
| Subject |
Post-Zionism.
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Judaism and state -- Israel.
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Christian Zionism -- History.
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Jews -- Israel -- Identity.
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Territory, National -- Israel.
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Geopolitics -- Palestine.
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Geopolitics -- Israel.
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Palestine -- In rabbinical literature.
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Israel -- Social conditions.
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| Added Author |
Forman, Geremy, translator.
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| Added Title |
Matai ve'ekh humtzea eretz Israel?. English.
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| ISBN |
9781781680834 |
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1781680833 |
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9781781684474 |
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1781684472 |
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9781844679478 |
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1844679470 |
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9781844679461 |
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1844679462 |
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