About the book: year / The book introduces the reader to the life and work of an outstanding representative of Russian Jewry, Yakov Lvovich Teitel (1850–1939). Published in Russian in Paris in 1925, the memoirs of Ya. L. Teitel become available to a wide readership for the first time. They provide a vivid picture of life in the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th century. One of the first Jewish forensic investigators in the civil service, Teitel became a leader of judicial reform in the Russian provinces. A convinced humanist, he was always in a hurry to do good - defending the disenfranchised, helping those in need, promoting the education of young people. While in exile since 1921, Ya. L. Teitel headed the Union of Russian Jews in Germany and made a significant contribution to improving the legal status of Jewish refugees during the period between the two wars in Europe, as well as to the rescue of Russian Jewish emigrants from Germany during the Nazi regime (1933–1939). The book analyzes Ya. L. Teitel’s contacts with representatives of Russian culture and the Jewish community, publishes letters from Jewish emigrants of the 1935–1950s from Germany, France and the USA, photographs and archival documents about the activities of organizations that Ya. L. Teitel led in Berlin, as well as the Teitel relief committees in France and the USA in the post-war period. The book is addressed not only to specialists, but also to a wide range of readers interested in the history of Russian Jewry and the history of Russian emigration. If the author of translations from German into Russian is not indicated, then the text is given in a literal translation by the author of the book.