For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is a short story collection by Nathan Englander, first published by Knopf in 1999.

The collection contains nine stories, many of which are set in the Jewish Orthodox world.

The title story tells of a married Hasidic Jew who receives special dispensation from a rabbi to visit a prostitute – "for the relief of unbearable urges.

"[2] The story "The Twenty-seventh Man", about Yiddish writers killed by Stalin, is an allusion to the Night of the Murdered Poets.

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