The Invention Of The Jewish People: Shlomo Sand Sandpapers The Jews

The Invention of the Jewish People (Hebrew: ?מתי ואיך הומצא העם היהודי‎ Matai ve’ech humtza ha’am hayehudi?, literally When and How was the Jewish People Invented?) is a "controversial", book by professor Shlomo Sand, a Tel Aviv University historian. The English translation was published by Verso Books in October 2009.

Book Summary

In the book Sand argues that most contemporary Jews don't originate from the ancient Land of Israel. They never existed as a "nation-race" with a common origin. Most of them are descendants of European, Russian and African groups that at various stages in history adopted the Jewish religion, just like others adopted Christianity. He also argues that for a number of Zionist ideologues, "the mythical perception of the Jews as an ancient people led to truly racist thinking".

Sand's book

Sand's argument is that the people who were the original Jews living in Israel, contrary to what is accepted history, were not exiled following the Bar Kokhba revolt. He has suggested that much of the present day world Jewish population are individuals, and groups, who converted to Judaism at later periods. Just like most contemporary Christians and Muslims are the progeny of converted people, nót of the first Christians and Muslims: Judaism was originally, like its two cousins, Islam and Christianity, a converting religion.

Additionally, he suggests that the story of the exile was a myth promoted by early Christians to recruit Jews to the new faith. They portrayed that event as a divine punishment imposed on the Jews for having rejected the Christian gospel. Sand writes that "Christians wanted later generations of Jews to believe that their ancestors had been exiled as a punishment from God.

Sand argues that most of the Jews were not exiled by the Romans, and were permitted to remain in the country. He puts the number of those exiled at tens of thousands at most. This was, in fact, how the book was born. He started looking in studies about the exile from the land, which is a constitutive event in Jewish history, almost like the Holocaust. Sand claims that he could discover no literature about the Jewish expulsion from Israel. His explanation is that no one exiled the people of the country. The Romans sometimes committed ethnocide but they didn't exile peoples. Sand claims that mass exile wasn't logistically possible until the 20th century.

He further argues that many of the Jews converted to Islam following the Arab conquest, and were assimilated among the conquerors. He concludes that the progenitors of the Palestinian Arabs were Jews.

Shlomo Sand: ‘There are Israeli, not Jewish people’

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Sand explains the birth of the myth of a Jewish people as a group with a common, ethnic origin as follows : "at a certain stage in the 19th century intellectuals of Jewish origin in Germany, influenced by the folk character of German nationalism, took upon themselves the task of inventing a people "retrospectively," out of a thirst to create a modern Jewish people. From historian Heinrich Graetz on, Jewish historians began to draw the history of Judaism as the history of a nation that had been a kingdom, became a wandering people and ultimately turned around and went back to its birthplace."

In this, they didn't differ from other national movements in Europe at the time. They invented a splendid Golden Age - for example, classical Greece, the ancient 'Belgians', the Dutch 'Bataven' or the Teutonic tribes - to prove they have existed as a separate people since the beginnings of history. Before this, according to Sand, Jews thought of themselves as Jews only because they shared a common religion. Just like Christians think of themselves as Christians, only because they share a common religion. Not a common ethnic background.

Sand further claims that the idea of Jews being obligated to return from exile to the Promised Land was entirely alien to Judaism before the birth of zionism. He claims that the holy places were seen as places to long for, not to be lived in. On the contrary, according to Sand, for 2,000 years Jews stayed away from Jerusalem because their religion forbade them from returning until the messiah came.

Scholarly evaluations

"The Invention of the Jewish People is an indispensable challenge and a very complex intellectual exercise... a more secure society (than Israel) would include the book in the core curriculum of its school system." - Avraham Burg, former Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Yedioth Ahronoth.

Sand's qualifications

Sand says: "There is no Jewish department of politics or sociology at the universities. Only history is taught this way, and it has allowed specialists in Jewish history to live in a very insular and conservative world where they are not touched by modern developments in historical research."

The problem with the teaching of history in Israel, Dr Sand said, dates to a decision in the 1930s to separate history into two disciplines: general history and Jewish history. Jewish history was assumed to need its own field of study because Jewish experience was considered unique.

Sand admits that he is "a historian of France and Europe, and not of the ancient period (...) " and that he has "been criticised in Israel for writing about Jewish history when European history is my specialty. But a book like this needed a historian who is familiar with the standard concepts of historical inquiry used by academia in the rest of the world"

Popular success

The book was in the best-seller list in Israel for 19 weeks and quickly went to 3 editions when published in French (Comment le peuple juif fut inventé, Fayard, Paris, 2008). In France it received the "Aujourd'hui Award", a journalists' award for top non-fiction political or historical work. More translations are in progress and the book is scheduled for publication by Verso in English in October 2009.

Well, the Zionist sand catle is collapsing thanks to revisionists who have debunked both the holocaust and the Jewish origion of the so-called Jews; they really torn off the leaves of their cabbage of lies to the core. And the irony is many of the debunkers are Jews.

The Auschwitz 'History'---a case for holocaust denial

This video presents evidence debunking the party line story surrounding the Auschwitz camp in Poland during the Nazi occupation, thereby undermining the 'official holocaust' story(a fabricated hoax). The 'history' about Auschwitz we generally hear about is the 'history' supporting the zionist 'understanding' about what went on during the Third Reich era of Germany. This video reveals that most of the 'official history' of the 'holocaust' is based on lies, myths, and war time propaganda. This video helps holocaust skeptics in their fight for the true understanding of history during that period.

I'm definitely going to buy the book. Read more here...

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