Satan in Goray

First edition (publ. Noonday Press)

Satan in Goray (1955) is a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991). It was originally published between January and September 1933 in installments in a literary magazine called Globus and was Singer's first published work. The English translation (from Yiddish) was made by Jacob Sloan with the author's help. It is set in the years following 1648, when the Chmelnicki massacres, considered one of the greatest Jewish catastrophes, occurred. The story describes the Jewish messianic cult that arose in the village of Goraj and the effects of the 17th century faraway false messiah Shabbatai Zvi on the local population.

Dar Williams' song "And a God Descended" (from The Green World album) uses imagery from the story to contemplate faith gone awry.

Sources

http://darwilliams.net/library/gw-songbysong.html

Works by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Novels	The Family Moskat (1950) Satan in Goray (1955) The Slave (1962) The Manor (1967) The Estate (1969) The Golem (1969) The Wicked City (1972) Enemies, a Love Story (1972) Shosha (1978) The Penitent (1983) The Certificate (1992) Meshugah (1994) Shadows on the Hudson (1997)

Short stories	"Gimpel the Fool" (1956) Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories (1966) A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1973) "The Reencounter" (1983)

Non-fiction	Rencontre au Sommet (1998)

Plays	Yentl (1975)

Works adapted into films	The Magician of Lublin (1979) Yentl (1983) Enemies, a Love Story (1989) Love Comes Lately (2007)

Works adapted into operas	Fool's Paradise (1994)

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