The kaleidoscope of pseudonyms behind which he hid himself on the pages of the Russian- Jewish weekly Rassvet is a reflection of the multifaceted personality of Zakharia Klyuchevich. Historian, archaeologist, linguist, teacher, political activist, journalist, caricaturist, painter, poet, screenwriter, biologist, it is difficult to find an area into which he did not venture. The spectrum of languages he mastered, or tried ​​as an author, is equally colorful: from his native Russian to quasi-native French, through English, Hebrew, German, Yiddish, Polish, Ancient Greek, Turkish, up to Albanian and Etruscan, two languages he tried to link by identifying the latter as a protolanguage of the former.  The amount of material left behind by this polyhedric author is voluminous. Correspondence in various languages (Italian, Russian, English, and French), diaries, theater screenplays (Hebrew, English), essays (French), poetry (French, Russian, and Hebrew), authored language textbooks (French-Hebrew, Russian-Hebrew), sketches, paintings, and newspaper clippings are preserved at the Jabotinsky Institute in Tel Aviv. Through a thorough analysis of this material, we will try to draw the portrait of this ish eshkolot, this Renaissance type of intellectual, who has been forgotten in their treatises by historians of literature, Zionism, art and archeology, perhaps precisely because of the difficulty in tracing his movements and activities, the excessive chameleon-like nature of his occupations and cryptonyms.

The paper presents the opinions and characteristics of the work of the Russian-Israeli writer and
journalist Alexander Goldstein (1957–2006), winner of, among others, the Andrei Bely Prize for his novel Quiet Fields (2006). The author of the paper recalls the statements of the writer’s friends and acquaintances, who are mostly enthusiasts of his work (Roman Katsman, Sergey Orobiy, Stanislav L’vovskiy, Yelena Fanaylova and others). The article emphasizes the importance of Goldstein’s creative achievements for contemporary Russian literature and a relatively small circle of his readers. Attention is also paid to the causes and consequences of the departure of the author of Parting from Narcissus from essays, which brought him popularity and prestige, to novel forms. Based on the opinions of experts in Goldstein’s prose, an attempt was made to describe its distinctive features, which determine the everlasting value of his essays and novels.

The article deals with the issues of widely understood spaces and spatial objects which have some
associative/emotional potential. These objects appear in the two texts mentioned above. Among these objects the central place is the house as well as the cemetery. These spaces were described and divided in a very close connection with the house and they are as follows: 1. The house space, 2. The nearby house space, 3. The outer/off space. The comparison of these two literary texts gives a contrastive image of the space and spatial objects typical for the two ethnic groups described in both texts. These groups are the Komi-Zyryans (The Podlipnayans) and the Diaspora (Kasrilovka). These commumities used to live in the lands of the Russian Empire.

In her article, Anna Krasowska discusses the process of adaptation and semantic development of the Jewish loanword shmontse in the Polish language of the 20th and 21st century. The semantic adaptation of this word depends not only on the transfer of Yiddish meanings into Polish, but also on different changes, involving the narrowing and expansion of the meaning, the change of the emotional coloring, and the elimination of multiple meanings. These changes are caused by different intralinguistic and extralinguistic factors.

This article describes the possibilities that the Treq application provides in the process of translating Russian colloquial medical names into Hebrew. The author presents the tool’s available functions that make it easier to find the adequate equivalent and also provides information about the Russian and Hebrew collections included in the InterCorp parallel corpus. The article analyzes specific examples of the translation of Russian colloquial names of diseases into Hebrew using the English language as an intermediary language. Preliminary reference to printed and electronic resources made it possible to establish a potentially correct
equivalent, whose adequacy should be confirmed by the application. The results of the analysis made it possible to determine the advantages and disadvantages of the application, and the found translations can serve as the basis for more thorough research in the field of identifying translation pairs of the everyday medical vocabulary of the analyzed languages.

Tłumaczenie trzech esejów Władimira Zeewa Żabotyńskiego Mowa do nauczycieli oraz Mowa w odeskim Towarzystwie Oświatowym, tworzących dyptyk zatytułowany O narodowym wychowaniu, a także eseju Zamiast apologii.