Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People - Rafapal

Na'aman, Nadav, 123; Ancient Israel's History
and Historiography, 123 n.118
Nabonidus, King, 117
Nairn, Tom, The Break-Up of Britain, 54
Nakbah, 19, 293
Napoleon, 42, 46
Napoleonic wars, 59
nation: abstract imagery of, 253; à la Anderson,
35-36; Buber, 260; Gellner, 36-37; ancestors
of, 62; ancient origin of, 85; ancient
rejuvenation of, 17; Bible as chronicle of,
20-21; colonialism produces, 43; cultural
building components of, 27, 31, 36, 40;
defined, 23-24, 33-34, 38; democratic core,
32, 34, 39; diversity in, 84; diversity of, 86;
and education, 60; and equality, 38-39;
eternal, 32, 40, 45; ethnic boundaries of,
47; and ethnos, 28-29, 98, 162, 257; first
in history, 65; hardening of, 36; and
historiography, 22; and history, 83; and
identity, 90; as immense cultural spectacle,
61; integral parts of, 48-49, Jews as, 253; and
intellectuals, 55, 57, 59, 61-62; and memory,
15-16, 39, 54, 80, 92; and myth, 22, 39, 47-49,
75. 83, 199, 257; and nationalism, 40, 45;
optimism of, 63; and people, 73; people as
site of, 30, 39, 49; and printing, 36; and race,
89, 257-58, 261, 266; and religion, 90; rush
to enter, 70; vs state, 90; still ill-conceived
in 19th century, 33; changes in study of, 18;
marxist study of, 33-34; neglected study of,
31; fresh treatment of, 34-35; two in one,
82-84; unifier of, 80. See also Jewish nation
national consciousness, 35, 37, 42, 45-46, 52, 54,
74, 101, 107, 142, 187, 252-53, 303; difference
irritates, 253; and literate elite, 54
national history, xi, 15, 19-20, 31, 62, 72-73, 81,
110, 148, 248
national identity, xi, 4, 22, 32, 41-43, 46, 48-49,
52, 59, 62, 90, 102, 111, 251, 253-54, 260, 268,
282, 286, 293; myths of, 49; universalization
of, 43
national ideology, 34, 41-42, 48, 249, 259, 297
Nationalism (Greenfield), 52 n.41
Nationalism (Kedourie), 54 n.46
nationalism, 30, 35, 67, 74, 89, 111-12, 127, 254,
256-58, 260, 265, 285-86, 290; à la Kohn,
46-47; American, 48; ancient origin of, 85;
vs ancient religion, 156; Anglo-Saxon, 47;
Arab, 285, 287; Balkan, 50 n.39; and Bible, 71;
as blow to ideologues, 33; civil, 49, 86, 253,
vs racial, 83; Czech, 52; and democracy, 42,
282; eroded by globalization, 309; ethnic, 50,
vs civil, 51-53, 58, 85; ethnocentrism of, 95;
German, 47, 70, 77, 83-84, ethnicization of,
85; and history, 70; and identity, 30, 44; as
INDEX 327
ideological consciousness, 39; as ideology
par excellence, 44; and intellectuals, 54-55,
59, 67; Jewish, 21, 45, 75, 93, 122, 127, 189, 236,
252 n.2, 255-56, 258, 284, 288, 297, 305; and
masses, 54; and nation, 40, 45; optimism of,
63; Palestinian, 183; peak of, 251; Polish, 50
n.38; and printing revolution, 60; as religion,
43-44; rise of, 27, 136, 187; Romanian,
15; Russian, 231, 236; and socialism, 34;
academic study of, 45; changes in study of,
18-19; inconclusive study of, 23, 53; neglected
study of, 31; success of, 41-43, 45, 71; and
Zionism, 252, 255
Nationalism, Its Meaning and History (Kohn),
47 n.34
Nationalism and Its Alternatives (Deutsch),
35 n.19
Nationalism and liberty (Kohn), 38 n.23
Nationalism and the Mind, 286 n.56
Nationalism and Social Communication
(Deutsch), 34-35
Nationalism and Socialism (Davis), 33 n.14
Nationalism and the State (Breuilly), 34 n.17
Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World
(Chatterjee), 43 n.28
nationality, 4-5, 8, 12, 289-90, 302-3;
determination of, 306; and ethnos, 29, 98;
lacks discursive founder, 31; and race, 79-80
nationalization, 29, 31 n.11, 35, 51, 60 n.56, 68,
107
national language, 32, 60, 86, 161, 251
National Socialism, 44, 51, 265
Nation and History, 187 n.127
nationhood, 19, 33, 53, 102, 290; dual, 82-84
Nation and National Identity, 53 n.43
Nations and Nationalism (Gellner), 19 n.6, 31
n.11, 35-37, 40
Nations and Nationalism since 1780
(Hobsbawm), 40
nation-state, 14, 21, 26-27, 40, 52-54, 57, 59,
90, 156, 254, 298, 302, 304, 309-10, 312;
colonialism and imperialism of, 44-45;
eternal legacy, 32; ethnic features predate, 30;
and nationalism, 45; rise of, 33; weakening
of, 309
The Nation in History (Smith), 29 n.8
The Nation and Its Fragments (Chatterjee), 43
n.28
Nature, 278
Nazis, 3, 10, 34, 47, 50, 102, 136, 254, 262, 265,
271, 280, 289, 291
Near East, 91, 96, 105, 117, 125, 130, 264, 276-77,
302, 309, 311
Nebuchadnezzar, 92, 137-38
neoliberalism, 291
Nero, 171-72