What ifs of Jewish history : from Abraham to Zionism /
"What if the Exodus had never happened? What if the Jews of Spain had not been expelled in 1492? What if Eastern Europe Jews had never been confined to the Russian Pale of Settlement? What if Adolf Hitler had been assassinated in 1939? What if a Jewish State had been established in Uganda inste...
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New York, N.Y. :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of figure acknowledgments
- List of contributors
- Introduction: Counterfactual history and the Jewish imagination / Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
- What if the Exodus had never happened? / Steven Weitzman
- What if the Temple of Jerusalem had not been destroyed by the Romans? / Rene Bloch
- What if King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella had not expelled the Jews of Spain in 1492? / Jonathan Ray
- What if the "ghetto" had never been constructed? / Bernard Dov Cooperman
- What if Spinoza had repented? / Eugene R. Sheppard
- What if Russian Jewry had never been confined to the Pale of Jewish Settlement? / Jeffrey Veidlinger
- What if a Christian state had been established in modern Palestine? / Derek Jonathan Penslar
- What if the Jewish state had been established in East Africa? / Adam Rovner
- What if Franz Kafka had immigrated to Palestine? / Iris Bruce
- What if the Palestinian Arab elite had chosen compromise instead of boycott in confronting Zionism? / Kenneth W. Stein
- What if Musa Alami and David Ben-Gurion had agreed on a Jewish-Arab state? / David N. Myers
- What if the Weimar Republic had survived? A chapter from Walther Rathenau's memoir / Michael Brenner
- What if Adolf Hitler had been assassinated in 1939? / Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
- What if the Nazis had won the battle of El Alamein? / Jeffrey Herf
- What if the Final Solution had been completed?: Nazi memory in a victorious Reich / Dirk Rupnow
- What if the Holocaust had been averted? / Jeffrey S. Gurock
- Notes
- Index