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debate over the meaning of a“JewishState”or a“State of the Jewish people”and itscontradiction with the republican idea of ademocracy belonging to all of its citizens hasonly just begun....  \nIn the case of the Zionist revolution,wordswere the cornerstone for building the newJewish nation:the conquest of land to turn itinto a national good..All those who hesitatedin using these words were labeled the swornenemies of national resurrection.  \nThe idea of the Jewish nation was conceived before the organization of theZionist movement in the nineteenth century and continued long after the creationof the state of Israel.In The Words and the Land,post-Zionist Israeli historianShlomo Sand examines how both Jewish and Israeli intellectuals contributed tothis process.One by one,he identifies and calls into question the foundationmyths of the Israeli state,beginning with the myth of a people forcibly uprooted,a people-race that began to wander the world in search of a land of asylum.Thiswas a people that would define itself on a biological and “mythological-religious”basis,embodied in words that today feed Israeli political,literary,and historicalwriting:\"exile,”“return,\"and “ascent”(Aliyah)to the land of its origins.  \nSince 1948,most intellectuals in Israel have continued to accept this ethno-national image and embrace an exclusive state identity to which only Jewishpeople can belong.The first challenges to this dominant idea didn't appear inIsrael until the 1980s,in the innovative work of the“post-Zionist”historians,who were bent on dismantling the nationalist historical myth and arguing for astate that would belong equally to all its citizens.Analyzing how Israeli intellectualspositioned themselves during the Gulf War and in the new era of communicationtechnologies,Sand extends his analysis globally,looking at the status ofintellectuals in all societies.  \nShlomo Sand teaches contemporary history at Tel-Aviv University.He is theauthor of The Invention of the Jewish People,On the Nation and the JewishPeople,and other books.  \n■  \nSEMIOTEXT(E)ACTIVE AGENTS SERIES  \nOriginally published as Les mots et la terre.◎Librairie Arthème Fayard,2006.◎ This edition 2011 by Semiotext(e).  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this book may be reproduced,stored in aretrieval system,or transmitted by any means,electronic,mechanical,photo-copying,recording,or otherwise,without prior permission of the publisher.  \nPublished by Semiotext(e)  \n2007 Wilshire Blvd.,Suite 427,Los Angeles,CA 90057www.semiotexte.com  \nSpecial thanks to John Ebert and Marc Lowenthal  \nCover Photography:The Dead Sea,1919.Courtesy Library of Congress.Back Cover Photography:Olivia Grabowski-West.  \nPhotographs on page 1 and 238-239:◎2010 Jorge Alberto Perez.www.jorgealbertoperez.comDesign by Hedi El Kholti  \nISBN:978-1-58435-096-5  \nDistributed by The MIT Press,Cambridge,Mass.and London,EnglandPrinted in the United States of America  \n# THE WORDS AND THE LAND\n\nISRAELI INTELLECTUALSAND THE NATIONALIST MYTH  \n■  \nShlomo Sand  \nTranslated by Ames Hodges  \nContents  \n7  \nPreface:Where I Am Speaking From  \n25  \nIntroduction:Intellectuals and the National Imagination  \n45  \n1.“People of the Book”and People of Letters  \n2.Words That Think Through Us99  \n3.“Analogical”Intellectuals and the Gulf War135  \n155  \n4.Post-Zionism:A Historiographical or Intellectual Debate?  \n181  \nEpilogue:Bernard Lazare,the First French Zionist  \n203  \nNotes  \n221  \nBibliography  \n231  \nIndex  \nAcknowledgments  \n# Where IAm Speaking From\n\nIt flous that when we take up a work of history,our first con-cern should be not with the facts which it contains but with thehistorian who wrote it  \n—Edward H.Carr,What Is History,1961.  \nIntellectuals are always ready to leave their own game and theirown stakes out of play.  \n—Pierre Bourdieu,Sociology in Question,1994.  \nEvery book is part 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