The Book of Life: Memories and Reflections. Materials for the History of My Time

Memoirs of an outstanding historian, publicist and public figure Seeds Markovich Dubnova (1860-1941) - a genuine encyclopedia of Jewish life in Russia.
Memoirs are written on the basis of the diaries, which S.Dubnov led throughout the lifetime and in which the richest panorama of events of the second half of the XIX - the first decades of the XX century was recorded. Direct participant and the witness of the decisive events of the Epoch - Sunset Gascaly, the Narginity and Development of Palestinianhood, and later Zionism, revolution 1905-1907, the creation of Jewish political parties and organizations, February and October revolutions 1917, and the Civil War, S.M.Dubnov Scrupulously restores the picture of the lived years, draws portraits of his friends and associates - writers and poets Sholom Aleichem, H.N. Boyalik, Ben-Ami, S. Frug, N.S.Leskova, A.Volynsky, political and public figures M. Vivina, O. Gruzenberg, A.landau, Slyosberg and many others.
The activities of S.M.Dubnova proceeded in the most important centers of Jewish life Odessa, Vilna, St. Petersburg in the years when cardinal changes took place in the fate of the Jewish people.

The first two volumes are devoted to the scientific, public and political life of Russia, the third volume gives an idea of ​​the Russian-Jewish emigration in Germany, where S.M.Dubnov found himself in 1922-1933.

This second edition contains not only a new preface, but also significantly awarded and corrected biobibliographic comments