The Invention of the Land of Israel
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The Invention of the Land of Israel

From Holy Land to Homeland

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The Invention of the Land of Israel

From Holy Land to Homeland

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What is a homeland? 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. The invention of the modern concept of the "Land of Israel" in the nineteenth century, he argues, not only facilitated the colonization of the Middle East and the establishment of the State of Israel, it is also what is threatening Israel's existence today.

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Publisher
Verso
Year
2013
ISBN
9781781684474
Topic
Geschichte
Subtopic
Geschichte des Nahen Ostens

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. INTRODUCTION: BANAL MURDER AND TOPONYMY
  6. 1. MAKING HOMELANDS: BIOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE OR NATIONAL PROPERTY?
  7. 2. MYTHERRITORY: IN THE BEGINNING, GOD PROMISED THE LAND
  8. 3. TOWARD A CHRISTIAN ZIONISM: AND BALFOUR PROMISED THE LAND
  9. 4. ZIONISM VERSUS JUDAISM: THE CONQUEST OF “ETHNIC” SPACE
  10. 5. CONCLUSION: THE SAD TALE OF THE FROG AND THE SCORPION
  11. AFTERWORD: IN MEMORY OF A VILLAGE
  12. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  13. INDEX
  14. Copyright