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 ...
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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.
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This book sets out to disabuse the reader of the notion that the israelis are the biological/national descendants of the Biblical Israelites. It separately covers Sephardim, Ashkenazim and Mizrahim, and in one section follows the Biblical Israelites (called, for reasons explained, "Judeans") down to the modern Palestinians. The book is full of interesting information, but does not emphasize the missionary nature of Biblical Israel. The explanation of how we got the misunderstanding that "Jews" are biological descendants of the Biblical Israelites is rather complicated and, I think, a little weak, but it will do till a better explanation comes up. I think the book would have come out rather differently had a Christian written it - for instance, Sand ignores the long Christian history of the Palestinians. Also, I suspect that the Bible is more accurate than here supposed about the relation of the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel.
