Memoirs of a Soviet Jewish historian Saul Borovoy (1903 - 1989) represent huge cognitive value for the reader. The alive and sharp-sighted feather of the author, its erudition, an origin, really the long life which has incorporated set of significant events and acquaintances, - to all this together promoted creation of so remarkable memoirs. In the book is given the unwrapped picture of the Jewish life in Ukraine and in Russia in XX century; process of gradual destruction of the Jewish national culture, destruction of its most talented representatives is described.