Their say-so has never been enough for this writer and I am shocked at how entire theological and political architectures have been erected around the baseless assumption that Israelis, Zionists, and Talmudists from Brooklyn, are certainly the descendants of the Jews of the Bible.
Has anyone read Rev. 2:9? Rev. 3:9?
In autumn, Verso Press will publish in English, Shlomo Sand's The Invention of the Jewish People. (400 pages. Cloth ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 422 0. US$34.95)
Sand is a historian at the University of Tel Aviv. He demonstrates that today’s "Jews" are mostly not the descendants of Biblical Israelites. They are descended in large part from Khazars who converted to rabbinic Talmudism ("Judaism").
Leading Israeli historian evaluates the national myth of the Jewish exile from the promised land
All modern nation states have a story of their origins, passed down through both official and popular culture, and yet few of these accounts have proved as divisive and influential as the Israeli national myth. The well-known tale of Jewish exile at the hands of the Romans during the first century AD, and the assertion of both cultural and racial continuity through to the Jewish people of the present day, resonates far beyond Israel's borders. Despite its use as a justification for Jewish settlement in Palestine and the project of a Greater Israel, there have been few scholarly investigations into the historical accuracy of the story as a whole.
In this bold and ambitious new book, Shlomo Sand shows that the Israeli national myth has its origins in the nineteenth century, rather than in biblical times — when Jewish historians, like scholars in many other cultures, reconstituted an imagined people in order to model a future nation. Sand forensically dissects the official story — and demonstrates the construction of a nationalist myth and the collective mystification that this requires.
A bestseller in Israel and France, Shlomo Sand's book has sparked a widespread and lively debate. Should the Jewish people regard themselves as genetically distinct and identifiable across the millennia — or should that doctrine now be left behind and if the myth of the "Jewish state" is dismantled, could this open a path toward a more inclusive Israeli state, content within its borders?
Praise for The Invention of the Jewish People:
"The Invention of the Jewish People is an indispensible 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
"The reader will have understood the message: what this well-documented and fearless book explodes is the myth of a unique Jewish people, miraculously preserved, in contrast to all the other peoples, from external contamination … [Sands'] conclusions, which are prudently formulated, nonetheless lead one towards a sole solution: the construction of a secular and democratic Israel." — Jacques Julliard, Le Nouvel Observateur
Shlomo Sand studied history at the University of Tel Aviv and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, in Paris. He currently teaches contemporary history at the University of Tel Aviv.
In autumn, Verso Press will publish in English, Shlomo Sand's The Invention of the Jewish People. (400 pages. Cloth ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 422 0. US$34.95)
Sand is a historian at the University of Tel Aviv. He demonstrates that today’s "Jews" are mostly not the descendants of Biblical Israelites. They are descended in large part from Khazars who converted to rabbinic Talmudism ("Judaism").
Here is the press release from the publisher:
Leading Israeli historian evaluates the national myth of the Jewish exile from the promised land
All modern nation states have a story of their origins, passed down through both official and popular culture, and yet few of these accounts have proved as divisive and influential as the Israeli national myth. The well-known tale of Jewish exile at the hands of the Romans during the first century AD, and the assertion of both cultural and racial continuity through to the Jewish people of the present day, resonates far beyond Israel's borders. Despite its use as a justification for Jewish settlement in Palestine and the project of a Greater Israel, there have been few scholarly investigations into the historical accuracy of the story as a whole.
In this bold and ambitious new book, Shlomo Sand shows that the Israeli national myth has its origins in the nineteenth century, rather than in biblical times — when Jewish historians, like scholars in many other cultures, reconstituted an imagined people in order to model a future nation. Sand forensically dissects the official story — and demonstrates the construction of a nationalist myth and the collective mystification that this requires.
A bestseller in Israel and France, Shlomo Sand's book has sparked a widespread and lively debate. Should the Jewish people regard themselves as genetically distinct and identifiable across the millennia — or should that doctrine now be left behind and if the myth of the "Jewish state" is dismantled, could this open a path toward a more inclusive Israeli state, content within its borders?
Praise for The Invention of the Jewish People:
"The Invention of the Jewish People is an indispensible 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
"The reader will have understood the message: what this well-documented and fearless book explodes is the myth of a unique Jewish people, miraculously preserved, in contrast to all the other peoples, from external contamination … [Sands'] conclusions, which are prudently formulated, nonetheless lead one towards a sole solution: the construction of a secular and democratic Israel." — Jacques Julliard, Le Nouvel Observateur
Shlomo Sand studied history at the University of Tel Aviv and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, in Paris. He currently teaches contemporary history at the University of Tel Aviv.
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5 comments:
I assume that Mr. Sand refers to the origins of the Ashkenazim rather than the Sephardim (whose link to the ancient Jews is more plausible).
Mr. Hoffman states parenthetically that the Catholic Church fell for the masquerade of false Jews. With all due respect for Mr. Hoffman's expertise, I would just like to soften the blow of his statement a bit. I would modify it to say that members of the Catholic Church including popes in non infallible statements and actions fell for the masquerade, and in doing so obviously created tremendously harmful scandal.
Additionally (and I think Mr. Hoffman's excellent work in the field strongly bears this out), it would appear that a good number of influential members of the Catholic Church were (and are) either apostates or so morally compromised as to make it appear that they were/are not so much suckers as deceivers. In other words, they themselves, were/are master masqueraders.
Very sad. Very tragic unless before the end of the ball they cooperated/cooperate with grace so as to rip off their masks and join the wedding feast.
JBP
Even if there were some remote genetic link to ancient Hebrews, I fail to see any justification to occupy land that your ancestors lived in 2000 years ago. Even at that time, most Biblical Judeans were living outside of Palestine.
Jews are not really Jews but Khazars - this is nothing but another Jewish chewing gum and not very original one: it was advanced by surprise, surprise Jew Benjamin Friedman half a century ago. So, what brand of Jew are you, Michael, a genuine one - descendant of Biblical Israelites or a fake one - "descended in large part from Khazars"? Since "a sizable portion of your research has been aimed at those people", it shouldn't be a difficult question for you to answer.
The Catholic Church does not recognize race in relation to religion (thus Jewish racial claims are irrelevant to it). It is the theology and praxis of Jews that is the problem, not their ethnic heritage. A more serious charge is that the Church allowed the rabbis to exercise control over Jews up to and including murder for religious transgressions (in the name of non-interference with the practice of Judaism by Jews).
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