Prominent authors, journalists, literary translators, philologists, Hebraists, historians, etc.

[2] The original idea was suggested by the AVI CHAI Foundation director for the former Soviet Union David Rozenson.

[3] The project originators declare their intentions in this way, “We are as free of religious, political, territorial, language, and other commitments, as we can be, with all due respect to all groups and trends.

We are equally interested in both mainstream and marginal aspects of the Jewish culture, in friendly attention and hostile stereotypes.”[3] Booknik materials are arranged by genre (in sections), and by theme (in tags).

The site creators describe it as a resource “about good books, both fresh ones and those we loved when we were kids ourselves.

And we write about different cities and countries where you can travel with all your family, and no one will be bored.”[5] Several times a year, Booknik arranges “Booknik Shows,” thematic offline events coinciding with significant events of Moscow's cultural and literary life, like the NON/FICTION International Book Fair, the Moscow International Book Fair, the series of club events for the “Read, City” program organized by the Knizhnoye Obozrenie newspaper, etc.