What Ifs of Jewish History

"The enduring value of counterfactual approaches emerges clearly from Gavriel Rosenfeld's ably constructed collection and the essays, at once perceptive and exciting, that it contains. A major contribution to the method as well as to Jewish history."
Jeremy Black, University of Exeter, and author of Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures

"Gavriel Rosenfeld has produced a marvellously imaginative book. While it is not 'history' in the conventional sense, it is certain to be appreciated, even treasured, by scholars and all of those deeply concerned with the fate of European Jewry."
Michael Berkowitz, University College London

"Counterfactual thinking is implicit in Jewish culture, from the grumbling of the liberated slaves about the watermelons they would have enjoyed in Egypt to the 'Dayenu' song in the Passover Seder. Entertaining and educational, What Ifs of Jewish History makes explicit the main junctures in Jewish history by imagining what would have been otherwise, including a Jewish state in Africa and a Christian state in Israel, a world without Jews and history without the Holocaust."
Aviezer Tucker, author of Our Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Historiography