Shlomo Sand: 9 books

Book cover of Comment le peuple juif fut inventé
by Shlomo Sand
Language: French
Release Date: September 3, 2008

Quand le peuple juif fut-il créé ? Est-ce il y a quatre mille ans, ou bien sous la plume d’historiens juifs du XIXe siècle qui ont reconstitué rétrospectivement un peuple imaginé afin de façonner une nation future ? Dans le sillage de la « contre-histoire » née en Israël dans les année...
Book cover of Les Mots et la Terre

Les Mots et la Terre

Les intellectuels en Israël

by Shlomo Sand
Language: French
Release Date: May 3, 2006

L'élaboration de l'idée de nation juive a débuté bien avant que le mouvement sioniste ne s'organise et s'est prolongée bien après la création d'Israël. Dans Les Mots et la Terre, Shlomo Sand s'interroge sur la contribution des intellectuels juifs et israéliens à ce processus. Il étudie...
Book cover of The End of the French Intellectual

The End of the French Intellectual

From Zola to Houellebecq

by Shlomo Sand
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018

Charting the decline of the French intellectual, from the Dreyfus Affair to Islamophobia The best-selling author of The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the troublesome figure of the French intellectual. Revered throughout the Francophile world, France’s tradition of public...
Book cover of Twilight of History
by Shlomo Sand
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017

The acclaimed and controversial historian turns his critical gaze on the writing of history today On its publication in 2009, Shlomo Sand’s book The Invention of the Jewish People met with a storm of controversy. His demystifying approach to nationalist and Zionist historiography provoked...
Book cover of How I Stopped Being a Jew
by Shlomo Sand
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014

Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person’s camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a “secular Jew.” With this meditative and thoughtful mixture of essay and personal recollection,...
Book cover of Die Erfindung des Landes Israel

Die Erfindung des Landes Israel

Mythos und Wahrheit

by Shlomo Sand
Language: German
Release Date: October 26, 2012

Gehört Israel den Juden? Was bedeutet überhaupt Israel? Wer hat dort gelebt, wer erhebt Ansprüche auf das Land, wie kam es zur Staatsgründung Israels? Shlomo Sand, einer der schärfsten Kritiker der israelischen Politik gegenüber den Palästinensern, stellt den Gründungsmythos seines Landes...
Book cover of The Invention of the Jewish People
by Shlomo Sand
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010

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...
Book cover of The Invention of the Land of Israel

The Invention of the Land of Israel

From Holy Land to Homeland

by Shlomo Sand
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012

What is a homeland, and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for them throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land?Following the acclaimed and controversial Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious...
Book cover of Warum ich aufhöre, Jude zu sein

Warum ich aufhöre, Jude zu sein

Ein israelischer Standpunkt

by Shlomo Sand
Language: German
Release Date: October 25, 2013

Wann bin ich Jude? Wenn ich mich selbst als solcher verstehe oder wenn ich so bezeichnet werde? Was genau bedeutet "jüdische Identität" und worauf gründet sie? Gibt es eine säkulare jüdische Kultur, die all jenen gemeinsam ist, die sich als Juden betrachten? Was ist der Unterschied...
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