The Words and the Land: Israeli Intellectuals and the Nationalist Myth

by Shlomo Sand and Ames Hodges

Book Overview

How the work of Israeli writers today reflects the foundation myths of a Jewish state.

The idea of the Jewish nation was conceived before the organization of the Zionist movement in the nineteenth century and continued long after the creation of the state of Israel. In The Words and the Land, post-Zionist Israeli historian Shlomo Sand examines how both Jewish and Israeli intellectuals contributed to this process. One by one,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584350962
• ISBN13: 9781584350965
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Semiotext(e)
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher