The Past as Prologue

The Past as Prologuernby Jacob NeusnerrnA People Apart: The Jews in Europe,rn1789-1939rnby David VitalrnOxford: Oxford University Press;rn941 pp., $45.00rnDavid Vital describes his work as arnpoHtical history, whose subject isrnthe exercise of legitimate violence. Hernrecounts how the Jews of Europe addressedrnthe political crisis that overtookrnthem between the . . .