Well-known Polish movie director, Adviser to the Pope Krszysztof Zanussi talks about the interaction of civilizations, capacities of Jewish - Christian culture and neo-liberal trends in Europe.

In conclusion we publish abstracts from Charles Hoffman's book "The Red Schtettle" about the heritage of the schtettle for the Soviet Jewry. The author believes that the values and ideology of Jewish activists were formed by schtettle - the world that today ceased to exist. The heritage of schtettle is very significant today, in the post-Soviet period when Jews are able to define their identity, and the value of Jewish nationality activated after a long period of lethargy and became the basis for restoring the community life.

Boris Vasilyev writes about the historical events that caused the current nationalism in Russia. Soviet Internationalism and the genesis of today's Russian nationalistic public mood and xenophobia. Russia's power lies in the unity of its peoples. If we manage to preserve this unity - we will save Russia.

When the Jews who inhabited the Kingdom of Poland at the end of the XVIII century found out that it did not exist any longer they had no idea that it would change their life dramatically. In the article written by Moroz the author tells us about the consequences of those changes and the life of the Jews in Russia. One of the consequences was that during the Soviet period several generations of the Jews spoke only Russian and did not know anything about their Jewish cultural background. The author reviews of the history of Jewish people in tsarist and Soviet Russia, the impact it had on Russian Jewish intellectuals, Jewish community leaders and the community itself.