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Shlomo Sand

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in Linz, Austria

September 10, 1946

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Shlomo Sand is professor of history at Tel Aviv University and author of the controversial book The Invention of the Jewish People (Verso Books, 2009). His main areas of teaching are nationalism, film as history and French intellectual history.

Sand was born to Polish Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. His parents had Communist and anti-imperialist views and refused to receive compensations from Germany for their suffering during the Second World War. Sand spent his early years in a displaced persons camp, and moved with the family to Jaffa in 1948. He was expelled from high school at the age of sixteen, and only completed his bagrut following his military service. He eventually left the Union of Israeli Communist Youth (Banki) and joined th ...more

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	The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand, Yael Lotan (Translator) 4.13 avg rating — 1,856 ratings — published 2008 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand, Geremy Forman (Translator) 4.27 avg rating — 447 ratings — published 2012 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How I Stopped Being a Jew by Shlomo Sand, David Fernbach (Translation) 3.86 avg rating — 475 ratings — published 2013 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breve História Mundial da Esquerda by Shlomo Sand, Carlos Vaz Marques (Translator) 3.91 avg rating — 143 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The End of the French Intellectual: From Zola to Houellebecq by Shlomo Sand, David Fernbach (Translator) 3.62 avg rating — 82 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twilight of History by Shlomo Sand, David Fernbach (Translator) 4.29 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	عرق متوهم by Shlomo Sand, شلومو زند, يحيى محمد عبد الله إسماعيل (ترجمة) 3.69 avg rating — 51 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Mort du Khazar rouge 3.95 avg rating — 37 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Nation and the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand, Ernest Renan 3.48 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Israel-Palestine: Federation or Apartheid? by Shlomo Sand, Robin Mackay 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Peoples, populations, native populaces, tribes and religious communities are not nations, even though they are often spoken of as such.”
― Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People

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“Another historical irony: there were times in Europe when anyone who argued that all Jews belong to a nation of alien origin would have been classified at once as an anti-semite. Nowadays, anyone who dares to suggest that the people known in the world as Jews (as distinct from today's Jewish Israelis) have never been, and are still not, a people or a nation is immediately denounced as a Jew-hater.”
― Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People

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“If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.”
― Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People

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