Шахматная еврейская энциклопедия

This book is addressed to anyone interested in chess and its history. In your hands is a unique collection of the fates of people born under the Star of David and passionate about the best of the Games created in the history of mankind. The people who gave the world brilliant artists and musicians, writers and scientists, politicians and religious figures, left the brightest trace in chess. In total, the encyclopedia contains more than 1350 personalities, among which are not only outstanding chess players, but also coaches, journalists, historians, organizers - that is, all those who were and are bricks in a huge intellectual pyramid called chess.

The "Jewish Chess Encyclopedia" is a visible confirmation of the FIDE slogan "Gens una sumus". The author and main initiator of the project, grandmaster Igor Berdichevsky managed to infect many chess historians from Australia to North America with the idea of ​​creating a fundamental work. It was thanks to their disinterested efforts that a couple of lines of information he had sometimes turned into a real mini-saga!

Through this book, a thinking reader will be able to study many world processes that are inextricably linked with Jewish culture of the 19th and 20th centuries.< /p>