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'''Shlomo Sand''' (born 10 September 1946) is Professor of History at [[Tel Aviv University]] in [[Israel]]. His main areas of teaching are Cinema and History, French Intellectual History, and Nation and Nationalism.<ref name=CV>[http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/faculty/sand_shlomo/ CV on Tel Aviv University website]</ref>
'''Shlomo Sand''' (born 10 September 1946) is Professor of History at [[Tel Aviv University]] in [[Israel]]. His main areas of teaching are Cinema and History, French Intellectual History, and Nation and Nationalism.<ref name=CV>[http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/faculty/sand_shlomo/ CV on Tel Aviv University website]</ref>


Sand was born in [[Linz]], [[Austria]], to Polish Jewish survivors of the [[Holocaust]]. He spent his early years in a [[displaced persons camp]], and moved to [[Jaffa]] in 1948. Sand was expelled from high school at the age of sixteen, and only completed his [[bagrut]] following his military service.<ref>[http://www.itu.org.il/index.asp?ArticleID=5363&CategoryID=813&Page=2 History as Film], Shiur Hofshi (Free Period) no 67, June 2005, Israeli Teachers' Union (in Hebrew)</ref> His military experience during and after the [[1967 war]] radicalised him, and he joined [[Matzpen]].<ref>[http://www.notimportant.co.il/?p=680 Conversation with Shlomo Sand], by Asaf Shor, Me'asef, 10 December 2004 (in Hebrew)</ref>
Sand was born in [[Linz]], [[Austria]], to Polish Jewish survivors of the [[Holocaust]]. He spent his early years in a [[displaced persons camp]], and moved to [[Jaffa]] in 1948. Sand was expelled from high school at the age of sixteen, and only completed his [[bagrut]] following his military service.<ref>[http://www.itu.org.il/index.asp?ArticleID=5363&CategoryID=813&Page=2 History as Film], Shiur Hofshi (Free Period) no 67, June 2005, Israeli Teachers' Union (in Hebrew)</ref> His military experience during and after the [[1967 war]] radicalised him, and he joined [[Matzpen]].<ref>[http://www.notimportant.co.il/?p=680 Conversation with Shlomo Sand], by Asaf Shor, Me'asef, 10 December 2004 (in Hebrew)</ref>
In 1975, Sand graduated with a BA in History from Tel Aviv University. From 1975 to 1985, he studied and taught in [[Paris]], receiving an MA in French History, and a PhD for his thesis <ref>[http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=12288475 thesis]</ref> on "[[George Sorel]] and [[Marxism]]". Since 1982, Sand has taught at Tel Aviv University as well as at the [[École des hautes études en sciences sociales]] in Paris.<ref name=CV/> He has been described by one critic as a revisionist pseudo-historian. <ref>[http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Editorial%20-%20Seth%20Frantzman%20-%20Shlomo%20Sand.htm]Seth J. Frantzman, ''Shlomo Sand's Revisionist Pseudo-History of the Jewish People''</ref>.
In 1975, Sand graduated with a BA in History from Tel Aviv University. From 1975 to 1985, he studied and taught in [[Paris]], receiving an MA in French History, and a PhD for his thesis <ref>[http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=12288475 thesis]</ref> on "[[George Sorel]] and [[Marxism]]". Since 1982, Sand has taught at Tel Aviv University as well as at the [[École des hautes études en sciences sociales]] in Paris.<ref name=CV/> He has been described by one critic as a revisionist pseudo-historian. <ref>[http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Editorial%20-%20Seth%20Frantzman%20-%20Shlomo%20Sand.htm]Seth J. Frantzman, ''Shlomo Sand's Revisionist Pseudo-History of the Jewish People''</ref>.

His book ''Matai ve’ech humtza ha’am hayehudi?'' (When and How Was the Jewish People Invented?), first published in Hebrew in 2008, argues that until little more than a century ago, Jews thought of themselves as Jews only because they shared a common religion. Sand argues that, at the start of the 20th century, [[Zionist]] Jews invented the idea that Jews existed as a people separate from their religion.


==Publications==
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*[http://mondediplo.com/2008/09/07israel Zionist nationalist myth of enforced exile: Israel deliberately forgets its history] by Shlomo Sand, ''[[Le Monde diplomatique]]'', September 2008
*[http://mondediplo.com/2008/09/07israel Zionist nationalist myth of enforced exile: Israel deliberately forgets its history] by Shlomo Sand, ''[[Le Monde diplomatique]]'', September 2008
*[http://www.antiwar.com/orig/cook.php?articleid=13569 Israeli Bestseller Breaks National Taboo: Idea of a Jewish people invented, says historian] by [[Jonathan Cook]]
*[http://www.antiwar.com/orig/cook.php?articleid=13569 Israeli Bestseller Breaks National Taboo: Idea of a Jewish people invented, says historian] by [[Jonathan Cook]]
*[http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Editorial%20-%20Seth%20Frantzman%20-%20Shlomo%20Sand.htm Shlomo Sand's Revisionist Pseudo-History of the Jewish People]




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Shlomo Sand (born 10 September 1946) is Professor of History at Tel Aviv University in Israel. His main areas of teaching are Cinema and History, French Intellectual History, and Nation and Nationalism.[1]

Sand was born in Linz, Austria, to Polish Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. He spent his early years in a displaced persons camp, and moved to Jaffa in 1948. Sand was expelled from high school at the age of sixteen, and only completed his bagrut following his military service.[2] His military experience during and after the 1967 war radicalised him, and he joined Matzpen.[3] In 1975, Sand graduated with a BA in History from Tel Aviv University. From 1975 to 1985, he studied and taught in Paris, receiving an MA in French History, and a PhD for his thesis [4] on "George Sorel and Marxism". Since 1982, Sand has taught at Tel Aviv University as well as at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.[1] He has been described by one critic as a revisionist pseudo-historian. [5].

Publications

  • L'Illusion du politique: Georges Sorel et le débat intellectuel 1900 , Paris, La Découverte, 1984
  • Georges Sorel en son temps, with Jacques Julliard (eds), Paris, Seuil, 1985
  • Intellectuals, Truth and Power: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War, Tel Aviv, Am Oved, 2000 (in Hebrew)
  • Le XXe siècle à l' écran, Paris , Seuil, 2004 — also as Film as History – Imagining and Screening the Twentieth Century , Tel Aviv, Am Oved & Open University Press, 2002 (in Hebrew)
  • Cinema and Memory – A Dangerous Relationship?, with Haim Bresheeth & Moshe Zimmerman (eds), Jerusalem , The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2004 (in Hebrew)
  • Historians, Time and Imagination, From the “Annales” School to the Postzionist Assassin, Tel Aviv, Am Oved, 2004 (in Hebrew)
  • Les Mots et la terre - Les intellectuels en Israël, Paris, Fayard, 2006
  • When and How was the Jewish People Invented?, Tel Aviv, Resling, 2008 (in Hebrew) — also as Comment le peuple juif fut inventé - De la Bible au sionisme, Paris, Fayard, 2008

Notes

  1. ^ a b CV on Tel Aviv University website
  2. ^ History as Film, Shiur Hofshi (Free Period) no 67, June 2005, Israeli Teachers' Union (in Hebrew)
  3. ^ Conversation with Shlomo Sand, by Asaf Shor, Me'asef, 10 December 2004 (in Hebrew)
  4. ^ thesis
  5. ^ [1]Seth J. Frantzman, Shlomo Sand's Revisionist Pseudo-History of the Jewish People

External links

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