The Holocaust Averted: An Alternate History of American Jewry, 1938-1967

The popular genre of "alternative histories" has captivated audiences by asking questions like "what if the South had won the Civil War?" Such speculation can be instructive and shed light on accepted history. Jeffrey Gurock imagines what might have happened to the Jewish community in the US if the Holocaust had never occurred and forces readers to contemplate how the road to acceptance and empowerment for today's American Jews could have been harder than it actually was.