Twilight of History Sand Shlomo
The acclaimed and controversial historian turns his critical gaze on the writing of history todayOn its publication in 2009, Shlomo Sand's book The Invention of the Jewish People met with a storm of…
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The acclaimed and controversial historian turns his critical gaze on the writing of history todayOn its publication in 2009, Shlomo Sand's book The Invention of the Jewish People met with a storm of controversy. His demystifying approach to nationalist and Zionist historiography provoked much criticism from other professional historians, as well as praise. The furore gave him a privileged position to consider his academic discipline, which he reflects on here in Twilight of History.Drawing on four decades in the field, Sand takes a wider view and interrogates the study of history, whose origin lay in the need for a national ideology. Over the last few decades, traditional history has begun to fragment, yet only to give rise to a new role for historians as priests of official memory. Working in Israel has sharpened Sand's perspective, since the role of history as
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