The Invention of the Jewish People

The Invention of the Jewish PeopleBest selling analysis of Jewish history by a leading Israeli historian with a new preface 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

Ella Finer

and yet wherever he goes he remains a stranger

illusionistic architecture

“All that can be done is for each one of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics

Censorship and self-censorship became normalized

a cacique of the Pueblo Nación Charrúa clan

each side viewing the other with suspicion

moral order

funny passage after another

and above all a powerful indictment against forgetting

In 1969 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his collection Of Being Numerous

it is at once a political history