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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: invention of the land of Israel
    sub title: from holy land to homeland
  title info:
    title: Matai ṿe-ekh humtseʼah Erets-Yiśraʼel. English
  name:
    name part: Sand, Shlomo.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: heb
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 295 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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. 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 what is threatening the existence of the Jewish state today.
  table of contents: Introduction: banal murder and toponomy -- Making homelands: biological imperative or national property -- Mytherritory: in the beginning, God promised the land -- Toward a Christian Zionism: and Balfour promised the land -- Zionism versus Judaism: the conquest of "ethnic" space -- Conclusion: the sad tale of the frog and the scorpion -- Afterword: in memory of a village.
  note: Shlomo Sand ; translated by Geremy Forman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-is---
  subject:
    topic: Post-Zionism
  subject:
    topic: Judaism and state
    geographic: Israel
  subject:
    geographic: Palestine
    topic: In rabbinical literature
  subject:
    topic: Christian Zionism
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: Israel
    topic: Identity
  subject:
    topic: Territory, National
    geographic: Israel
  classification: DS113.4 .S2613 2012
  classification: 320.54095694
  identifier: 9781844679461 (hardback : alk. paper) :
  identifier: 1844679462 (hardback : alk. paper) :
  identifier: 9781844679478 (ebook)
  identifier: 1844679470 (ebook)
  identifier: 2012031367
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 120803
    record change date: 20151202171748.0
    record identifier: in00002788304