As the title implies, Gevirtz focus­es more on breadth than depth regard­ing Jew­ish his­to­ry. In this she suc­ceeds, in that she deals with all of Jew­ish his­to­ry, from Solomon’s king­dom to mod­ern day Israel and the U.S. Con­sid­er­ing the com­plex­i­ty of geog­ra­phy and cul­ture the Jew­ish Dias­po­ra has cre­at­ed for the Jew­ish peo­ple, Gevirtz does a fine job of mov­ing between the his­to­ries of var­i­ous com­mu­ni­ties, Sephardic and Ashke­nazi, and con­ti­nents and, for the most part, gives a sat­is­fy­ing and even, at times, detailed account of the dif­fer­ent times and places. Her excel­lent account of the var­i­ous expul­sions before and dur­ing the years of the Inqui­si­tion is an exam­ple. Before cov­er­ing World War I, Gevirtz ties up all the loose ends and sums up the Jews’ his­to­ries around the world. She devotes a sep­a­rate chap­ter to Euro­pean and Amer­i­can Jew­ry and the devel­op­ing com­mu­ni­ty in Israel. Despite the broad scope of the work, there is enough detail, espe­cial­ly from the Enlight­en­ment on, to keep the work interesting.