The eleventh issue of the "Mishpoha" magazine starts with an article devoted to the conference of Zionists, which took place in 1902. "View from 100 Years After" is the name of the article by the kandidat in history Inna Gerasimova. The researcher provides interesting facts about the conference participants, the building, where the event took place, and even about the photographer, who made a group photo of the participants.
      Under the column "Far-Near" some recollections of Saul Ginzburg (outstanding Zionist Studies historian and public figure) about 19th century Minsk are published. Saul Ginzburg Foundation is based in New York and the Institute for Yiddish Language Studies, Jewish History and Culture.
      Arkady's Shulman's essay "In One Compartment With Chagall" is dedicated to the 115th
      anniversary of Mark Chagall's birthday.
      The colored attachment to the magazine presents picturesque paintings of Marc Chagall's grandnephew Jakov Feldman, who is living in Israel.
      The attention of the readers definitely will be attracted by the translation of the Czar Solomon's "Psalms", made by quite peculiar and very interesting poet Vera Gort.
      In this issue of "Mishpoha" magazine the poetry is presented by Elizaveta Polees and Evelina Rakitskaya.
      For the first time the prose of Arye Rotman and Dana Markovitch is published on the pages of the magazine.
      Girsh Reles is the oldest Jewish writer in Belarus. Next year he will celebrate his 90th birthday. The issue contains his story "Nohem der Hohem", where he narrates about his youth years in Chashniki place.
      Alexander Rozenblum became an archivist of this "Mishpoha" issue. He has published his material concerning Engelgard's persons with the same last name: a noble general and a Jew from Borisov, and about their participation in a war with Napoleon. The second Rozenblum's story is about missing monument to Girsh Lekkert. During the 20th of the XX century this monument was in Minsk.
      The family, which provided the world with famous writers and Stalin Era generals, small town tailor and Talmudic scholars, is described in " The Saga of the Jakirs". The publication is prepared by Sholom Jakir.
      Under the "Family Album" column some recollections of O. Mindlin, A. Zingman and B. Ginzburg are published.
      The portrait gallery of the previous century is presented by the essays of Leonid Smilovitsky's "Shoyhet from Retchitsa Ieguda Pinsky" and E. Levertoff's "The Levertoffs on the Jakov Stairs" and " I Have Lived Wonderful and Interesting Life". The latest is devoted to the life of the professor Veniamin Zukerman, one of the brightest figures in the Russia's nuclear project.
      Dedicated to the parents' memory, the story of St. Petersburg artist Leonid Simonovsky
      " Loving You Forever," tells about the shooting up of Jews by Nazi Germans in Mogilev during WWII.
      Under the column "Kadish" there are some recollections about famous Jewish writer Aizik Platner and remarkable doctor Prof. Abram Mihelson. The fate of these people is rather tragic.
      Once upon a time there was a wonderful artist Alec Rapoport. The 11th issue of "Mishpoha" magazine publishes the stories of people who knew this person. The literary works of Rapport and the reproductions of his paintings are also presented there.
      As usually there are traditional columns such as "New Books" and "Anecdotes of Different Years". The photo reportage concerning the opening of the Minsk Jewish Community House can be find there as well.