A solid, accessible, concise overview of Jewish history from the earliest times to the early 21st century. Michael Brenner uses migration, mobility, and dislocation as unifying themes for a sprawling history. Brenner isn't a great prose stylist (at least in translation), some of his decisions on space allocation seem more a reflection of a modernist bias than historical importance (Bob Dylan gets twice as much space as the Baal Shem Tov, for instance), and the lack of endnotes, let alone footnotes, in a university press book is a travesty. Still, as a basic introduction to Jewish history, this is useful to have to hand.