Abstract:

A Russian translation of the memoir of the eminent Israeli historian and social activist Ben-Zion Dinur, first published in Hebrew in 1958, cover the period of the early 1880s to the early 1910s.
Based on personal accounts of the time, the author reconstructs a detailed picture of Jewish communal, cultural and political life in the Russian Empire and Germany. The unique historical material presented in the memoirs of Dinur gives to the Russian reader a fresh look at the life of various strata of Russian society at the turn of the twentieth century.