The novel "The Charlatan" by the famous Jewish writer, Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis-Singer (1904-1991) was published in the newspaper "Forverts" in 1967-1968, then it was published in English translation and in Yiddish. His characters are Jews living in America in the early 1940s. All of them fled from Nazism and by the beginning of the action had managed to more or less settle in a new place. The life of each of them takes place in three planes: on the one hand, they are eager to get comfortable and get all kinds of pleasure. On the other hand, they constantly think about their relatives and friends who have remained in Poland and, most likely, have already died or are doomed. On the other hand, they do not forget about their Jewish origin and try to conduct a dialogue with God, justifying or explaining to Him their every action, which is far from the ideas of religious morality and simple decency.