3 Quotes & Sayings By Shlomo Sand

Shlomo Sand is a political scientist, lawyer, and philosopher. He is a former director of the board of the Jewish National Fund in Israel and was recently elected rector of Tel Aviv University, the only non-Israeli on the faculty. In his work he applies post-Kantian philosophy to questions of social justice. In 2010, he founded the master's program in law and philosophy at Tel Aviv University.

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The construction of a new body of knowledge always bears direct connection to the ideology in which it operates. Historical insights that diverge from the narrative laid down at the inception of the nation can be accepted only when consternation about their implications is abated. This can happen when the current collective identity begins to be taken for granted and ceases to be something anxiously and nostalgically clings to a mythical past, when identity becomes the basis for living and not its purpose - that is when historiographic change can take place. Shlomo Sand
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If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology. Shlomo Sand