By John FosterThe Battle Ground10 January 2020 Perhaps it is a sign of the wounds inflicted by National Socialism that…
Judenstaat
What If There Had Been No Balfour Declaration?
By Simone ZelitchDecember 9th, 2017 We’re living in an alternative-history moment. Given the current political climate, it’s no coincidence that…
My novel Judenstaat is Orwell Fan Fiction
By Simone ZelitchJune 8th, 2016 My hope for Judenstaat that it would find readers. It’s an alternative history about a…
Is Alternative History Science Fiction?
By Simone ZelitchJune 11th, 2016 Around three weeks ago, I presented my new novel Judenstaat to over 200 members of…
Judenstaat’s beginnings
By Simone Zelitch One morning, I was lying in bed with my husband, and I said, “What if a Jewish…
What if the Jewish State Had Been Created in East Germany?
In Simone Zelitch’s imaginary Judenstaat, the flag resembles Auschwitz uniforms, German beats Yiddish, and the Soviets – unsurprisingly – are…
10 Overlooked Books By Women in 2016
You Should Read These, Please By Bethanne PatrickLithubDecember 20th, 2016 But wait! There’s more alternate history! And it’s really good.…
Judenstaat in Reading the End
By Gin JennyReading the EndDecember 12th 2016 In Simone Zelitch’s book Judenstaat (Tor, 2016), no Jewish state was created in…
Judenstaat in Publishers Weekly
Publishers WeeklyOctober 17th, 2016 In this intriguing but not entirely satisfying alternate history, Zelitch (The Confession of Jack Straw) imagines…
Counterfactual, counterhistory, counter memory
By Ivan SchneiderSeattle Review of BooksSeptember 19th, 2016 Counterfactual history, or counterhistory, has its signature moves: Killing Hitler. Letting the…