The Invention of the Jewish People

The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand (Hardback) (ISBN: 9781844674220)

The well-known tale of Jewish exile at the hands of the Romans during the first century AD resonates far beyond Israel's borders. This work shows that the Israeli national myth has its origins in the nineteenth century, rather than in biblical times - when Jewish historians reconstituted an imagined people in order to model a future nation.

Should the Jewish people regard themselves as genetically distinct and identifiable across the millennia - or should that doctrine now be left behind and if the myth of the Jewish state is dismantled, could this open a path toward a more inclusive Israeli state, content within its borders?'