The publication of a voluminous selection of notebooks from the Vygotsky Family Archive represents a major event for the Vygotsky studies. The material provided in the book turns out to be truly novel; it reaches far beyond mere compilations of existing texts, reprints, and (re-)translations. The key question we address in our contribution is: does this newly made available material have a significant impact on our understanding of Vygotsky’s life and work? We first offer a rough summary of the book’s content, then indicate what readers may expect from the Notebooks and what they will not find there; and finally, we focus on Vygotsky’s early quest for his own Jewishness and on the shift toward systemic and semiotic thinking that marks the last years of his life.

维果斯基家庭档案馆中大量笔记本的出版是维果斯基研究的重要事件。本书提供的材料确实是新颖的。它远远超出了现有文本，再版和（重新）翻译的范围。我们在贡献中要解决的关键问题是：这种新近获得的资料是否会对我们对维果茨基的生活和工作的理解产生重大影响？我们首先提供本书内容的粗略摘要，然后指出读者对笔记本的期望以及在笔记本中找不到的内容；最后，我们关注维果茨基对他自己的犹太人的早期追求，以及向标志着他一生的最后几年的系统思维和符号学思维的转变。