There is not a single area of human activity in which Jews have not shown their talents. The Jewish people gave the world many brilliant personalities: religious figures and thinkers (Jesus Christ, the prophet Moses, Boruch Spinoza), scientists (Albert Einstein, Lev Landau, Gustav Hertz), musicians (George Gershwin, Benny Goodman, David Oistrakh), poets and writers (Isaac Asimov, Isaac Babel, Joseph Brodsky, Sholom Aleichem), actors (Charlie Chaplin, Sarah Bernhardt, Solomon Mikhoels) ... And also statesmen, doctors, businessmen, athletes. Their names are familiar to everyone, but not everyone knows what a difficult, thorny path they followed to their goal, and at what cost they achieved success. It is not for nothing that the great Heine once remarked: “The exploits of the Jews are as little known to the world as their true being. People think they know them because they saw their beards, but nothing else was revealed to them, and, as in the Middle Ages, the Jews remain a wandering mystery in modern times.” On the pages of this book we will try to at least slightly reveal this secret...