Kaftans and lapstrake. Sons and stepchildren: writers Jews in Russian literature

Essays and essays about Russian prose writers and poets of the postwar period - Osip Mandelstam, Isaac Babel, Ilya Ehrenburg, Samuel Marshak, Eugene Schwartz, Vera Inber and others make up this book. The author on the basis of the biographies and works of writers explores the relationship between their ethnic roots, cultural environment and the individual peculiarities of world perception, formed under the influence of mechanisms of national psychology.