Against justice. Story, essay, interview

What does it mean to gain your identity not in the fact of birth, but in the process of long and difficult cultural evolution? What does it mean to always be "others" - for society, for culture, for oneself, finally? In the new book of Leonid Girshovich, works of different genres are united by the theme of Jewry - from the carnival beaten the plot of Christmas in the novel “Rejoice” to the essay about anti -Semitism, processes over Nazi criminals and whether the villains should be punished in the name of justice. On the pages of the book, saints and sinners appear, persecuted and persecutors, geniuses and insignificance, executioners and victims - each of them gains linguistic and human personality in the prose and essays of the author. Leonid Girshovich is a writer and musician, author of novels and novels" Exchangeing heads" (1992), "Price" (1998), "Viy. Schubert"s vocal cycle to Gogol"s words" (2005), "fascism and vice versa" (2006), "Shautbenacht" (2006)