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For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

 

This is a collection of short stories by Nathan Englander.

Nine incredible Jewish stories from different times, different aim, different... just incredibly wonderfully different. 

There is the wig maker, there is reincarnation there is the harshness of soviet pogrom against Jewish intellectuals (absolutely my favorite story of the bunch) and the survival attempts during the Holocaust.

All stories are extremely interesting and stimulating. If you wonder what is the title about, it refers to one story in which a special dispense is issued to a man, ultra orthodox, to go with a prostitute.

Intrigued? 

I hope so. Enjoy it!