Joke: A poor Jew lived in the shtetl in 19th century Russia. A Cossack comes up to him on horseback. '''笑話一則'''：一位窮苦的猶太人住在19世紀俄國的猶太村莊里，這天，一位騎著馬的哥薩克騎兵來到他的身邊。
His works deal with the conflict between the traditional Jewish life and language and the modern world.They also attempt to recapture the fading traditions of the European shtetl (village). 他的作品體現(xiàn)了傳統(tǒng)猶太生活和語言與現(xiàn)代世界的矛盾、試圖再現(xiàn)正在消失的歐洲鄉(xiāng)村傳統(tǒng)文化。