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What Ifs of Jewish History: From Abraham to Zionism

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

First published 2016
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages viii+406
Price $34.99
ISBN 9781107037625

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction: Couterfactual History and the Jewish Imagination Gavriel D. Rosenfeld Essay
24 What If the Exodus Had Never Happened? Steven Weitzman Essay
43 What If the Temple of Jerusalem Had Not Been Destroyed by the Romans? René Bloch Essay
58 What If King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella Had Not Expelled the Jews of Spain in 1492? Jonathan Ray Essay
81 What If the "Ghetto" Had Never Been Constructed? Bernard Dov Cooperman Essay
103 What If Spinoza Had Repented? Eugene R. Sheppard Essay
123 What If Russian Jewry Had Never Been Confined to the Pale of Jewish Settlement? Jeffrey Veidlinger Essay
142 What If a Christian State Had Been Established in Modern Palestine? Derek Jonathan Penslar Essay
165 What If the Jewish State Had Been Established in East Africa? Adam Rovner Essay
187 What If Franz Kafka Had Immigrated to Palestine? Iris Bruce Essay
215 What If the Palestinian Arab Elite Had Chosen Compromise Instead of Boycott in Confronting Zionism? Kenneth W. Stein Essay
238 What If Musa Alami and David Ben-Gurion Had Agreed on a Jewish-Arab State? David N. Myers Essay
259 What If the Weimar Republic Had Survived? A Chapter from Walther Rathenau's Memoir Michael Brenner Essay
275 What If Adolf Hitler Had Been Assassinated in 1939? Gavriel D. Rosenfeld Essay
298 What If the Nazis Had Won the Battle of El Alamein? Jeffrey Herf Essay
311 What If the Final Solution Had Been Complete?: Nazi Memory in a Victorious Reich Dirk Rupnow Essay
332 What If the Holocaust Had Been Averted? Jeffrey S. Gurock Essay