Trail on Earth

The book by Israeli writer and journalist Lina Gorodetskaya is a collection of essays reflecting the fates of her contemporaries-Israelis. The author is primarily interested in the individual in complex, sometimes dramatic circumstances.
Whoever is being talked about in these true stories—nurse Elena Shur, a GULAG prisoner lawyer Baruch Minkovich, a participant in the uprising in the Sobibor concentration camp, Semen Rosenfeld, journalist Irina Babich—what remains in the foreground is the strength of spirit and optimism—qualities that are so necessary for people at all times.