"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 fur 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 ......