POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European

He details the contributions and the leadership provided by the Dutch Jews and relates how they lost their "Dutchnessand their Orthodoxy within several generations of their arrival here and were absorbed into broader American Judaism.

In surveying the latest scholarship and responding o charges against American Jewry, Berman’s arguments are reasoned and reasonable.

All in all, his emphasis on the intellectual history of French Jewry provides a new perspective on a significant chapter of Jewish history.