Richard J. Bernstein's Freud and the Legacy of Moses is a major contribution to the rapidly growing literature on Freud's Moses and Monotheism and on Freud's Jewishness. Bernstein starts from a passage in Freud's introduction to the Hebrew edition of Totem and Taboo: “If the question were put to him [Freud]: ‘since you have abandoned [observant Judaism, knowledge of the Hebrew language, and Jewish nationalism], what is there left to you that is Jewish?’ He would reply: ‘A very great deal and probably its very essence’” (p. 1). Bernstein takes on the task of demonstrating that the essence of Judaism as Freud understood it is in the pages of