What ifs of Jewish history : from Abraham to Zionism /
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Cambridge ; New York :
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