Book contents
- What Ifs of Jewish History
- What Ifs of Jewish History
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Figure acknowledgments
- 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?*
- The letters of Joseph Benveniste, Rabbi Mayor of the Jews of Spain
- On the tribulations of the Jews of the Maghreb
- On the autonomy of the Jews and the protection of righteous kings
- On Spanish Jews not oppressing Muslims
- On the Jewish refugees from the Maghreb
- On why the Maghrebi Jews will prefer the lands of the Turks to the territories of the King of Spain
- On the Jews as loyal subjects
- On the Jews and the Messiah
- On the Jews of Constantinople
- Consolation for the tribulations of the Jews of Poland
- On the problem of the refugees
- On the Holy Office of the Rabbi Mayor and the rights of the Jews
- On the Jews of the Maghreb and Ottoman Empire
- On sacred texts, printing, and the study of the Kabbalah
- Discussion questions
- Document 1 A letter of petition to Mehmed IV (ca. 1672)
- Document 2 A letter of consolation and instruction to the rabbis of Poland and Lithuania (ca. 1673)
- 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
Document 1 - A letter of petition to Mehmed IV (ca. 1672)
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2017
- What Ifs of Jewish History
- What Ifs of Jewish History
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Figure acknowledgments
- 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?*
- The letters of Joseph Benveniste, Rabbi Mayor of the Jews of Spain
- On the tribulations of the Jews of the Maghreb
- On the autonomy of the Jews and the protection of righteous kings
- On Spanish Jews not oppressing Muslims
- On the Jewish refugees from the Maghreb
- On why the Maghrebi Jews will prefer the lands of the Turks to the territories of the King of Spain
- On the Jews as loyal subjects
- On the Jews and the Messiah
- On the Jews of Constantinople
- Consolation for the tribulations of the Jews of Poland
- On the problem of the refugees
- On the Holy Office of the Rabbi Mayor and the rights of the Jews
- On the Jews of the Maghreb and Ottoman Empire
- On sacred texts, printing, and the study of the Kabbalah
- Discussion questions
- Document 1 A letter of petition to Mehmed IV (ca. 1672)
- Document 2 A letter of consolation and instruction to the rabbis of Poland and Lithuania (ca. 1673)
- 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
Summary
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- Chapter
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- What Ifs of Jewish HistoryFrom Abraham to Zionism, pp. 59 - 70Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016