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The road to Atil: Shlomo Sand, post-Zionism, and the dialectic of Khazaria

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  1. This notion of Jewish return to the Holy Land remains a compelling reason for the robust support given to Israel and Zionism by contemporary American Evangelical Christians.

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Shlomo Sand – The Invention of the Jewish People (2010) Verso: London

Shlomo Sand – The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland (2012) Verso: London

Shlomo Sand – How I Stopped Being a Jew (2014) Penguin/Random House: New York

The original version of this article was revised: In the originally published online version of the article, the author's affiliation was incorrectly listed as: John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA. The correct statement is: John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, New York, NY, USA & The Living With Disability Research Centre, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia.

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Marcus, A. The road to Atil: Shlomo Sand, post-Zionism, and the dialectic of Khazaria. Dialect Anthropol 46, 103–113 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-021-09627-4

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