A collection of biographies and reports previously published about Jewish life from Jerusalem, Moscow (Russia), Ukraine, Lithuania, Brooklyn, Galicia (Eastern Europe), Cuba, Uzbekistan, Yangon (Myanmar), Harbin (China), Kaifeng (China), Shenzhen (China), Russia, Kolkata (India), Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria.
"This anthology includes reports on Jewish communities in the near and far world, selected Judaica essays and some book reviews that focus on the history and culture of the Jews. These texts were written between 1993 and 2015 and appeared almost without exception in magazines and newspapers in Germany and Switzerland (hence the different spellings of the "sharp S" in the two countries)."--Publisher's description.