The Jewish revolution in Belorussia: economy, race, and Bolshevik power

Abstract

a productive career that spans more than two decades. The work, however, would have benefitted greatly from a sharper analytical focus that develops evidence-based arguments and interprets these fascinating materials to make more nuanced and better substantiated claims. Furthermore, the book desperately needs an editor. It is highly problematic that so much of a burden is placed on the reader, who must work through very extensive quotes from primary sources and establish connections and conclusions in place of the author’s own analytical narrative. In addition, the extremely lengthy sentences that follow already very extensive direct quotes (with subclause after subclause of biographical information about the memoirist quoted), serves neither the scholar, the memoirist, nor the reader. Making it through this somewhat tangled text of quotes, analysis, citations, and unedited writing is challenging yet, in the end, reveals a rewarding book.