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Shlomo Sand
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “professor of history at tel aviv university and author of the controversial book the invention of the jewish pe”. Today it says “israeli post-zionist historian and socialist”.
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Shlomo Sand (pronounced Zand ; Hebrew : שלמה זנד ; born 10 September 1946) is an Austrian-born Israeli post-Zionist historian and socialist. He has served as an emeritus Professor of History at Tel Aviv University since 2014. He is known for his book The Invention of the Jewish People , originally published in Hebrew as Matai ve’eich humtsa ha‘am hayehudi? The Global Left Is Dying, and With It the Myth of Equality' " . The Times of Israel .
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professor of history at tel aviv university and author of the controversial book the invention of the jewish pe
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israeli post-zionist historian and socialist
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