Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Excellent and Insightful

For political reasons, a serious study of Yiddish language and culture has been ignored and shunted aside. Because of the stress on Israel and modern Hebrew, the world of the Ashkenazi Jew has been consigned to a double death in the aftermath of churban Europe (the holocaust). This has created a skewed and distorted view of Jewish history, culture and mores. It has even had a devastating impact on the modern synagogue, which has been stripped of its Ashkenazi roots, and consigns the traditional Cantor and choir of Eastern European tradition to the ash-bin of history. This book goes a long way to correct the common-place distortions and misapprehensions. Along the way, Dovid Katz presents an eminently readable, insightful and interesting account. It also points the way for future fruitful studies.