And laughter, and tears, and love... Jews and Petersburg. Three hundred years of shared history

"A new book of the sign of St. Petersburg urban folklore Nauma Syndalovsky is not similar to other works of the author. It, in addition to legends and jokes concerning certain characters, an attempt to understand the historical process, the origin of anti-Semitism, Russian and not only, the place of the Jewish nation in the life of our country.
The author managed very delicately, tactfully and weigly approach the outlined material. The book turned out, on the one hand, fascinating, and on the other - cognitive and pushing to reflections on the history of the country, about the fate of people in different epochs, about the irreversive human values.
The author appears before us, readers, with an unknown party. He managed to bring a certain benevolently ironic shade into the presentation, sometimes with unwitting notes of sadness, so peculiar to Jewish culture. Tears are heard through the laugh and vice versa. The form fully corresponds to the content. Probably in this secret of the amazing attractiveness of the book. "