“ ‘Brilliant’ is the only way to characterize this original inquiry into the nature of the modern Jewish experience. . . . Harshav includes references to the Jewish factor in the Bolshevik revolution, the internal dynamism of intra-Jewish politics . . . and the presence of so many Jews in the most elevated scientific, social and literary constellations.”—Jewish Exponent

"[An] altogether fascinating book. . . . [It is] among the most fascinating studies of the Hebrew revival to have emerged in recent years.”—Modernism