Human life is like a tree, and this tree has many roots. Something I inherited from my parents. Something from friends or enemies. Or taken from books that leave their mark - and what else! Those who banned them throughout the centuries, put them in special storage facilities or burned them, understood this very well. This book is a kaleidoscope of portraits, events, situations, historical facts and historical anecdotes, resurrected under the pen of Evgeniy Satanovsky. Not the TV and radio hero familiar to the reader, but one of the leaders of the Soviet Jewish underground of the late 80s, who stood at the origins of the revival of the country's Jewish national institutions in the 90s and all subsequent years. Few of those who know the author as a scientist and journalist, entrepreneur and philanthropist imagine the Jewish pages of his biography. Will they help the reader understand who Russian Jews are and what they want from life? It's possible. How did the life of Jews develop in the Russian Empire and other countries mentioned by the author over centuries and millennia, and what results did this lead to? Maybe. Well, what more could you want from the author?