ISBN:
1781680833
,
9781781680834
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 295 Seiten
Edition:
Paperback edition
Year of publication:
2014
Uniform Title:
Matai ṿe-ekh humtseʾah Erets-Yiśraʾel
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Zand, Shelomoh The invention of the land of Israel
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Zand, Shelomoh The invention of the land of Israel
DDC:
320.54095694
Keywords:
Zionismus
;
Gründung
;
Palästina
;
Israel
;
Post-Zionism
;
Judaism and state / Israel
;
Christian Zionism / History
;
Jews / Israel / Identity
;
Territory, National / Israel
;
Palestine / In rabbinical literature
;
Palästina
;
Israel
;
Gründung
;
Zionismus
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
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.
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