Ringen oyf der Neshome (Rings on the Soul) is Eli Schechtman's autobiographical novel in two volumes.

The autobiographical novel Ringen oyf der neshome (Rings on the Soul)[1] was written by Eli Schechtman in Israel in two stages.

Depicts the life of the Yiddish writer Eli Schechtman from his childhood until his arrival to Jerusalem.

Through this autobiographical account, themes of Jewish identity, life under the Soviet regime, as well as culture war between Yiddish and Hebrew are depicted.

Every turn of life, be it joyful or disastrous, cuts a new ring into the soul of the impressionable, as befits a writer ..." [3] In 1980, Ehud Ben-Ezer had published in the Israeli newspaper Maariv the article about Eli Schechtman under name "Rings of fire in a Jewish soul".