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Satan in Goray is a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer. It was originally published in installments in a literary magazine called Globus and was Singer's first published work. 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 (close to Biłgoraj) and the effects of the seventeenth 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.
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The Family Moskat (1950) · Satan in Goray (1955) · The Magician of Lublin (1960) · The Slave (1962) · Zlateh the Goat (1966) · The Fearsome Inn (1967) · Mazel and Shlimazel (1967) · The Manor (1967) · The Estate (1969) · The Golem (1969) · Elijah The Slave (1970) · Joseph and Koza: or the Sacrifice to the Vistula (1970) · The Topsy-Turvy Emperor of China (1971) · Enemies, a Love Story (1972) · The Wicked City (1972) · The Hasidim (1973) · Fools of Chelm and Their History (1973) · Naftali and the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus (1976) · A Little Boy in Search of God (1976) · Shosha (1978) · A Young Man in Search of Love (1978) · Reaches of Heaven. A Story Of The Baal Shem Tov (1980) · The Penitent (1983) · Yentl the Yeshiva Boy (1983) · Why Noah Chose the Dove (1984) · The King of the Fields (1988) · Scum (1991) · The Certificate (1992) · Meshugah (1994) · Shadows on the Hudson (1997)
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"Gimpel the Fool" (1957) My Father's Court (1966) · The Spinoza of Market Street (1961) · A Friend of Kafka, and Other Stories (1970) · A Crown of Feathers (1973) · Isaac Bashevis Singer, Stories Vol. 1 (2004) · Isaac Bashevis Singer, Stories Vol. 2 (2004) · Isaac Bashevis Singer, Stories Vol. 3 (2004)
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