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DESCRIPTION:TALKS BY PROFESSOR SHLOMO SAND,DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF TEL 
 AVIV,ON HIS NEWLY TRANSLATED BOOK,THE INVENTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE This 
 may be the most important and surprising book on Zionism, Israel and 
 Judaism written in the last fifty years. Nothing in the Middle East looks 
 the same after reading it.\n\nShlomo Sand is a much published professor in 
 the Dept. of History at TelAviv University specializing in the history of 
 ideas. His most recent book is THE INVENTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE. It is an 
 extremely scholarly, very original, and often shocking work - the title is 
 meant literally - with profound implications for Zionism and the ongoing 
 conflict between Israel and its neighbors. I can't recall when last I - 
 Bertell - learned so much about both nationalism and Zionism from any book. 
 It was a bestseller and caused a huge scandal when it appeared a couple of 
 years ago in Israel and another scandal when the French edition appeared 
 last year. Sand will be in the U.S. for a week promoting the English 
 edition of the book. For more, see reviews and interviews in English at 
 http//inventionofthejewishpeople.com/. Sand argues, among other things:. 
 Few modern conflicts are as attached to ancient history as that of Israel 
 and Palestine. Shlomo Sand's measured and analytical research intothe 
 biblical origin of the Jewish people-their slavery, two exiles 
 and(continuing) journey to the Promised Land-finds no record of any Jewish 
 exile. Sand's explosive and inescapable conclusion is that without exile, 
 there is noright to return.  . Sand's investigation uncovers a false 
 historiography based on surviving fragments of Jewish and Christian 
 religious memory. He finds early Rabbis and 19th century Zionist Scholars 
 responsible for the construction ofa continuous genealogy for the Jewish 
 people. Israel, states Shlomo, has deliberately forgotten its history, and 
 replaced it with a myth. "Thedisparity between what my research suggested 
 about the history of the Jewish people and the way that history is commonly 
 understood- not only within Israel but in the larger world-shocked me as 
 much as it shocked my readers" he writes in the book's preface. . Sand's 
 research attributes the Jewish diaspora to early Judaist evangelism across 
 North Africa, Southern Europe and the Middle East, not a biological 
 lineage. The biblical narrative of Jewish exile and enforceddispersal 
 already discredited, Sand finds present-day Palestinian Arabs to be the 
 true heirs of the biblical Jews.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/11/18625182.php
SUMMARY:THE INVENTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
LOCATION:U.C. BERKELEY, 3335 Dwinelle Hall, University of California, Berkeley Free 
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