Vitaly Lazarevich Ginsburg jokingly recalled how a party official was annoyed by saying: “Among the great Soviet physicists there are Jews: Joffe, Landau, Zeldovich, Chariton, Liffschitz, Kikoin, Frank, Bronstein, Altschuler, Migdal, Ginsburg... It is good that there is ALWAYS ONE Russian – Khalatnikov! He replied, “Yes, only Isaac Markovich remains.”