# For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

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- Authors: [Nathan Englander](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathan-englander)
- Publisher: w_n
- ISBN: 978-14-7461-109-1
- Published: 2020-06-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Ruchama, a wigmaker from an ultra-orthodox Brooklyn enclave, journeys into Manhattan for inspiration, frequenting a newsstand where she flips through forbidden fashion magazines. An elderly Jew with a long, white beard reluctantly works as a department store Santa Claus every year - until he can take it no longer. And a Hasidic man, frustrated by his wife's lack of interest, gets a dispensation from a rabbi to see a prostitute for the relief of unbearable urges.