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What if the Exodus had never happened? What if the Jews of Spain had not been expelled in 1492? What if Eastern European 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 instead of Palestine? Gavriel D. Rosenfeld's pioneering anthology examines how these and other counterfactual questions would have affected the course of Jewish history. Featuring essays by sixteen distinguished scholars in the field of Jewish Studies, What Ifs of Jewish History is the first volume to systematically apply counterfactual reasoning to the Jewish past. Written in a variety of narrative styles, ranging from the analytical to the literary, the essays cover three thousand years of dramatic events and invite readers to indulge their imaginations and explore how the course of Jewish history might have been different.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of figure acknowledgments
- List of contributors
- Introduction: Counterfactual history and the Jewish imagination
- 1 What if the Exodus had never happened?
- 2 What If the Temple of Jerusalem had not been destroyed by the Romans?
- 3 What if King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella had not expelled the Jews of Spain in 1492?
- 4 What if the “ghetto” had never been constructed?
- 5 What if Spinoza had repented?
- 6 What if Russian Jewry had never been confined to the Pale of Jewish Settlement?
- 7 What if a Christian state had been established in modern Palestine?
- 8 What if the Jewish state had been established in East Africa?
- 9 What if Franz Kafka had immigrated to Palestine?
- 10 What If the Palestinian Arab elite had chosen compromise instead of boycott in confronting Zionism?
- 11 What if Musa Alami and David Ben-Gurion had agreed on a Jewish-Arab state?
- 12 What if the Weimar Republic had survived? A chapter from Walther Rathenau’s memoir
- 13 What if Adolf Hitler had been assassinated in 1939?
- 14 What if the Nazis had won the battle of El Alamein?
- 15 What if the Final Solution had been completed?: Nazi memory in a victorious Reich
- 16 What if the Holocaust had been averted?
- Notes
- Index