About the book: year / “Do you say “cares”, “troubles”? Everything you call “care”! It seems to me that since God created the world, and since the Jewish people have existed, no one has ever seen such worries and troubles in their dreams! If you have time, please move closer and listen carefully, then I will tell you from beginning to end, with all the little things and details, the story of seventy-five thousand. I feel cramped here, it’s pressing me, it’s burning like fire, I must, I must free myself!.. Do you understand or not? I only ask you one thing: if I stop or climb into God knows where, remind me where I stopped, because ever since then, that is, after the story with these seventy-five thousand, I, not to mention you, began to make noise in my head, and now it often happens that I forget where I stopped... Do you understand or not?... Tell me, do you have seventy-five thousand?.. Ugh! I wanted to say: do you have a cigarette?..” The story “Seventy-five thousand” was first published in the Jewish weekly “Judishe Volks-Zeitung” (“Jewish People’s Newspaper”), Warsaw, 1902.