Life as a discovery — these words can briefly define the ways-roads of Vladimir Mikhailovich Fridkin (b. 1929). A scientist-physicist and writer, inventor and Pushkinist, he traveled almost all over the world. The book "I am a Russian Jew" consists of short stories-sketches made, as they say, from memory. As a result, there is a three-dimensional canvas woven from memories of pre — war childhood, about friends-classmates-Nathan Eidelman, Alexey Batalov, Kirill Kholodkovsky, about cooperation with major scientists, traveling around the country and the world. Sincerely and confidentially, ironically and touchingly, the author recalls the experience, and on the pages of the book it comes to life. In it — people, meetings, years, fate.