This book is about a people whose self-name can be translated exactly like this - “Those who crossed the river.” This is what their ancestor was called: Abraham Ivri - Abraham the Jew (The Crosser). The essays that make up the book by Daniel Kluger tell exactly about those who crossed in one way or another - crossed the river, transformed tradition... Three sections - three trips in a time machine. “The Jewish Wars” - through the pages of the military history of the Jews, “The Dispersion” - following the Jews who settled in other countries after the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, “Adventurers, madmen, messiahs” - precisely for them, always bright passengers of this time machine, which is called the history of the Jewish people.