 His work critiques corruption inside the Jewish community and that imposed on it from Russian and Polish governing institutions.He also continues the tradition of Haskalah literature with his attack on superstition and outmoded traditions such as arranged marriage.His extraordinary parody of the picaresque, "Kitser masoes Binyomen hashlishi" ("The Brief Travels of Benjamin the Third"), published in 1878, was his last great work and provides one of his strongest critiques of Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement.