The reader is offered an artistic and ethnographic essay by the Russian writer, journalist and traveler V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, which describes in bright, poetic language the author's stay among Dagestan Jews - a fragment of the "Semitic tribe, long ago abandoned in the Caucasus wilderness, in an environment alien to him and even hostile peoples." The book is recommended to ethnologists, culturologists, historians, social scientists, as well as a wide range of readers interested in the history and culture of various peoples.