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La Mort du Khazar rouge
" Comprendre une partie de l'Histoire des Juifs avec une intrigue bien ficelée ! "
EUROPE 1
Tout commence par la découverte du cadavre d'Yitzhak Litvak, un célèbre historien enseignant à l'université de Tel-Aviv. L'enquête, confiée à un commissaire arabe israélien, Émile Morkus, piétine, d'autant que ce meurtre n'est bientôt que le premier d'une série. Vingt ans plus tard, à la suite d'un nouvel assassinat, Morkus va enfin pouvoir démêler le vrai du faux, les passions et les raisons, la justice des hommes et celle de l'État.
Dans ce polar riche en rebondissements, Shlomo Sand a l'art de mettre en relief les problématiques qui déchirent la société israélienne.
Professeur émérite à l'université de Tel-Aviv, Shlomo Sand est l'auteur de plusieurs essais, dont Comment le peuple juif fut inventé (Fayard, 2008), livre qui a suscité de nombreuses controverses, et Une race imaginaire – Courte histoire de la judéophobie (Le Seuil, 2020). La Mort du Khazar rouge est son premier roman.
Traduit de l'hébreu par Michel Bilis
EUROPE 1
Tout commence par la découverte du cadavre d'Yitzhak Litvak, un célèbre historien enseignant à l'université de Tel-Aviv. L'enquête, confiée à un commissaire arabe israélien, Émile Morkus, piétine, d'autant que ce meurtre n'est bientôt que le premier d'une série. Vingt ans plus tard, à la suite d'un nouvel assassinat, Morkus va enfin pouvoir démêler le vrai du faux, les passions et les raisons, la justice des hommes et celle de l'État.
Dans ce polar riche en rebondissements, Shlomo Sand a l'art de mettre en relief les problématiques qui déchirent la société israélienne.
Professeur émérite à l'université de Tel-Aviv, Shlomo Sand est l'auteur de plusieurs essais, dont Comment le peuple juif fut inventé (Fayard, 2008), livre qui a suscité de nombreuses controverses, et Une race imaginaire – Courte histoire de la judéophobie (Le Seuil, 2020). La Mort du Khazar rouge est son premier roman.
Traduit de l'hébreu par Michel Bilis
456 pages, Pocket Book
Published May 28, 2020
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About the author
Shlomo Sand
36 books259 followersShlomo 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 the more radical, and anti-Zionist, Matzpen in 1968. Sand resigned from Matzpen in 1970 due to his disillusionment with the organisation.
He declined an offer by the Israeli Communist Party Rakah to be sent to do cinema studies in Poland, and in 1975 Sand graduated with a BA in History from Tel Aviv University. From 1975 to 1985, after winning a scholarship, he studied and later taught in Paris, receiving an MA in French History and a PhD for his thesis on "George Sorel and Marxism". Since 1982, Sand has taught at Tel Aviv University as well as at the University of California, Berkeley and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.
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 the more radical, and anti-Zionist, Matzpen in 1968. Sand resigned from Matzpen in 1970 due to his disillusionment with the organisation.
He declined an offer by the Israeli Communist Party Rakah to be sent to do cinema studies in Poland, and in 1975 Sand graduated with a BA in History from Tel Aviv University. From 1975 to 1985, after winning a scholarship, he studied and later taught in Paris, receiving an MA in French History and a PhD for his thesis on "George Sorel and Marxism". Since 1982, Sand has taught at Tel Aviv University as well as at the University of California, Berkeley and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.
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February 2, 2021
Everything you need to know about Israel is there. Entertaining, complete and extremely depressing!
February 2, 2020
Un gros livre, une histoire très documentée (trop) avec une foule de personnages secondaires décrits par le menu, sur fond d'une intrigue policière assez mal ficelée, mais on apprend beaucoup sur les origines du judaïsme.
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