In Yiddish this word, as well as some other words normally considered pejorative may be turned into endearments. Literally it means a little yapping puppy. The epilogue is a concise dialogue in which each recounts the death of their friends.

It takes place thirteen years after the last chapter, when Aaron meets Haiml Chentshiner in Israel. The epilogue of Shosha is an abrupt fast-forward from before the outbreak of the Second World War in Poland to the early fifties. As writer whose main medium is language, the book opens by explaining that Aaron was brought up on three dead languages: Hebrew, Aramaic and Yiddish. Death is the cloud that hangs over the characters in Shosha. Although Aaron is offered the opportunity to leave the threat of death - as others, from Hassidics to Hedonists, do - he turns down the chance to escape, for his love for Shosha and chooses to stay in Poland. Hitler is in power in Germany and is set to annihilate the Jews in Poland while in Russia, Stalin rules with his deadly terror, so the only voluntary exit that many of the characters in Shosha perceive for themselves is suicide. Aaron lived his childhood on 10 Krochmalna Street, and lost the sight of her as he moved away and she moved from no. Shosha was struck by a sleeping disease and had since barely grown physically and was mentally retarded.

'I was an anachronism in every way, but I didn't know it, just as I didn't know that my friendship with Shosha had anything to do with love.' Īaron had many love affairs with women, but the only woman he truly loved was Shosha, his childhood friend. The main character is aspiring author Aaron Greidinger who lives in the Hasidic quarter of the Jewish neighborhood of Warsaw during the 1930s. The original Yiddish version appeared in 1974 in the Jewish Daily Forward under the title Soul Expeditions. Shosha is a novel by Nobel Prize winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer.

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