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?*
- 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
10 - What If the Palestinian Arab elite had chosen compromise instead of boycott in confronting Zionism?
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?*
- 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
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- What Ifs of Jewish HistoryFrom Abraham to Zionism, pp. 215 - 237Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016