The Era Of Mercury. The Jews in the modern world

"Era mercury" - the story of a complex, full of incredible difficulties, tragedies and great achievements of the path, which was passed by the representatives of the Jewish people in the twentieth century, from small towns to gigantic cities, from the pale of settlement to world metropolis. Yuri slezkin not only studies full of dramatic events of individual fate, but also indicates the General trends and background took place in the twentieth century social and political tectonic shifts that invariably representatives of the "Mercurian" of the nation of nomads, accustomed, on the one hand, to adjust to existing realities and to zealously protect their religious, social and cultural values. One of the most exciting, deep and large-scale works on the history of the Jewish people in the twentieth century. People, in fact, this century is created and affected by it more than others.