Abstract
Some Jews have chosen to disassociate from their inherited ethnoreligious culture for diverse reasons and in very different contexts over the past millennia. Todd M. Endelman1 demon-strates this perplexing but complex phenom-enon in his recently published masterful and comprehensive volume. Effectively synthesizing historical research by scores of scholars in addi-tion to his own impressive work, Endelman’s global narrative is both detailed and panoramic, portraying Jews who chose conversion or radi-cal assimilation, or both, from the Middle Ages to the present day.