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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface to the English-Language Edition
Introduction: Burdens Of Memory
Identity in Movement
Constructed Memories
1. Making Nations: Sovereignty and Equality
Lexicon: “People” and Ethnos
The Nation: Boundaries and Definitions
From Ideology to Identity
From Ethnic Myth to Civil Imaginary
The Intellectual as the Nation’s “Prince”
2. Mythistory: In the Beginning, God Created the People
The Early Shaping of Jewish History
The Old Testament as Mythistory
Race and Nation
A Historians’ Dispute
A Protonationalist View from the East
An Ethnicist Stage in the West
The First Steps of Historiography in Zion
Politics and Archaeology
The Earth Rebels against Mythistory
The Bible as Metaphor
3. The Invention of the Exile: Proselytism and Conversion
The “People” Exiled in 70 ce
Exile without Expulsion—History in the Twilight Zone
Against Its Will, the People Emigrate from the Homeland
“All Nations Shall Flow Unto It”
The Hasmoneans Impose Judaism on Their Neighbors
From Hellenistic Sphere to Mesopotamian Territory
Judaizing in the Shadow of Rome
How Rabbinical Judaism Viewed Proselytizing
The Sad Fate of the Judeans
Remembering and Forgetting the “People of the Land”
4. Realms of Silence: In Search of Lost (Jewish) Time
Arabia Felix: The Proselytized Kingdom of Himyar
Phoenicians and Berbers: The Mysterious Queen Kahina
Jewish Kagans? A Strange Empire Rises in the East
Khazars and Judaism: A Long Love Affair?
Modern Research Explores the Khazar Past
The Enigma: The Origin of Eastern Europe’s Jews
5. The Distinction: Identity Politics in Israel
Zionism and Heredity
The Scientific Puppet and the Racist Hunchback
Founding an Ethnos State
“Jewish and Democratic”—An Oxymoron?
Ethnocracy in the Age of Globalization
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Index
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