The book of scientific heritage of Natalia Yakovlevna Daragan (1955-2015), who worked for eleven years at the IEA RAS, includes her works on issues of ethnic and confessional identity, considered on the examples of two resettlement societies: American and Israeli. In addition, the book includes the memoirs and reflections of N.Ya. Daragan about her outstanding contemporaries (S.S. Averintsev, R.M. Kaplanov and G.V. Starovoitova), as well as reviews and book reviews written by her.