By Ofri Ilani: How many Jews would there be if not for the Holocaust?
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Title: # 4 Rodney and the difficulty of extrapolations Name: Ardi City: Vienna State: Austria
No holocaust, no Israel in todays shape. The state of the jews could also had been in Eastern Europe. Galicia in the Austrian Empire was one of the places an (european ) jewish state could arise. But !!! the professor touched the important part of the matter. I see in my own familiy. Many converted - mostly for career reason to christanity or are agnotics. The jewish upperclass in europe were more and more a mixture. The cynical outcome - it did not help, many catholic jews were also killed because of the race theory. You see the same phenomenia today in the US. An extrapolation is in fact not possible. It is the old game of "What could happen, when ?"