Kolitz is best known for "Yosl Rakover Talks to God," a short story he wrote in 1946 for a Jewish newspaper in Buenos Aires. In the story, set in the final days of the Warsaw Ghetto, a pious Jew challenges God. "And so, my God, before I die, freed from all fear, beyond all terror, in a state of absolute inner peace and trust, I will allow myself to call you to account one last time in my life," the fictionalized Rakover says, adding later "I believe in the God of Israel, even when he has done everything to make me cease to believe in him."