This impressive volume shows that the history of minorities - specifically that of a diaspora - can open up completely new perspectives on the 'great' questions and developments of general history. · Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft "... this magnificent and much-needed volume ... is remarkably free, factual or interpretive." · American Jewish History "The age-old tension between value-free history and history with a moral is implicit throughout this fine volume." · The Jerusalem Report "A substantial contribution to the scholarship on Indian [Native-American]-European relations ... Specialists will find new nuggets to challenge existing interpretations, while readers new to the topic will find useful introductions and more detailed case studies that give some idea of the current issues under scholarly debate. All readers will experience the benefits of looking at one topic comparatively across vast amounts of space and time." · Itinerario Jews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic, social, and re