‘The Invention Of The Jewish People’
Prof. Charles Sarvan-3 Jul, 2013
Shlomo Sand, ‘The Invention Of The Jewish People’
Collective identity needs a misty image of an ancient biological common origin (Sand, 280).
In Sri Lanka, ‘identity’ contains a very distinctive blend of ethno-nationalism with traditional religion where religion becomes an instrument serving political ends (Sand, 285-6).
Shlomo Sand, Professor of History at Tel Aviv University, wrote this work (hereafter, ‘Invention’) in Hebrew for a Jewish readership, and then translated it into English. (Page reference is to the paperback edition, London, 2010.) It is as if a Sinhalese
