Ancient history

Shattering a ‘national mythology’By Ofri Ilani, Haaretz  March 21, 2008 Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, the second president of the State of Israel, wrote in 1929 that, ‘the vast majority of the peasant farmers do not have their […]

An invention called ‘the Jewish people’ by Tom Segev in Haaretz We find, then, that the members of a variety of peoples and races, blond and black, brown and yellow, became Jews in large numbers. […]