Leyb Rashkin (pen name of Shol Fridman; 1903/4–1939) was born in Kazimierz Dolny,where he was the manager of a cooperative bank and of several hardware stores. The People of Godlbozhits was awarded a literary prize by the Polish Jewish PEN club.Jordan Finkin is a librarian at the Klau Library of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. He is the author of several books, including An Inch or Two of Time: Time and Space in Jewish Modernisms.

The novel is an element—an important, albeit neglected, one—in the puzzle of Yiddish literature created in the pre-Holocaust decades of the 20th century. Jordan Finkin’s excellent translation gives a chance to include Rashkin’s literary legacy in the contemporary academic discourse.' - Gennady Estraikh, clinical professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University 'A major work capturing the penultimate hour of Polish Jewish existence. . . . It is both hilarious and gruesome. The act of translating [it]is an invaluable gift for mankind, for we are offered an inside view of a battered but still vibrant Jewish world that no one could have expected to be exterminated to its roots within three years.' - Seth Wolitz, professor emeritus, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, University of Texas