One of the most famous novels by Ilya Grigorievich Ehrenburg, an outstanding writer, poet, translator. Lazik Reutschvanets - "Jewish Schweik," as he was dubbed by Western critics, is perhaps one of the most striking heroes of Ilya Ehrenburg. This "male tailor from the most ordinary Gomel" embodies the perky and prickly wisdom of Joseph Schweik and the spicy, Old Testament - Babel's Rebbe Arya Leib and Rebbe Motele.