Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: For serious students only

Professor Brody's book is not for the faint hearted. It is written for the serious student of Jewish history and civilisation - academics, scholars and committed non-professionals. But staying with it is well worth the effort. Brody's compehensive knowledge of the period shines through and his insights into the daily life of the geonim are fascinating and very believable. Necessarily Brody has had to pick examples to prove his thesis and some scholars might question whether these were carefully chosen to support a pre-formed theory. However this book is still a major contribution to our understanding of the yeshivot and rabbinical leadership of the geonic period and well worth the read. The cover price is very high so hopefully it will find a wide circulation amongst university and Jewish community libraries.