Epilogue: Lessons for Jews, Lessons for Everyone

This epilogue is devoted to exploring the lessons that can be learned from this book. What lessons can Jews learn from their success in the past in order to perpetuate their success in the future? What lessons can non-Jews learn from the success of Jews so that they can experience similar success if they so wish? What lessons can Jews learn from this book? Perhaps the most important one is that the success of modern Jews has come about by finding the right balance between two factors that have been in tension with each other throughout the modern period: maintaining