The Washington Post, April 18th, 1999
FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES By Nathan Englander Knopf. 205 pp. $22 Reviewed by Michael Lowenthal "Jews in Space," the bizarrely hilarious faux movie trailer at the end of Mel Brooks's "History of the World Part I," depicted black- hatted Hasidim on a star cruiser hurtling through the galaxy. The Jews in Nathan Englander's impressive debut story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, are geographically more down to earth, occupying expected locales like Jerusalem, Eastern Europe and New York. But the situations in which Englander places them are just as disjunctive and precariou...
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