Satan in Goray
As messianic zeal sweeps through medieval Poland, the Jews of Goray divide between those who, like the Rabbi, insist that no one can "force the end" and those who follow the messianic pretender Sabbatai Zevi. But as hysteria and depravity increase, it becomes clear that it is not the Messiah who...
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As messianic zeal sweeps through medieval Poland, the Jews of Goray divide between those who, like the Rabbi, insist that no one can "force the end" and those who follow the messianic pretender Sabbatai Zevi. But as hysteria and depravity increase, it becomes clear that it is not the Messiah who has come to Goray.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374524791 (0374524793)
Publish date: July 31st 1996
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Read for my Yiddish Lit class.In a semester of depressing reading, this was possibly the most dismal and hopeless, but that's exactly what it was meant to convey. The story is somewhat from the point of view of the town of Goray itself, and at times this makes the personal repercussions of certain e...
Satan in Goray paints a vivid and mystical picture of Jewish rural life in the Poland of the 17th century, in a style far removed from the politicised drivel that one is often confronted with today.The citizens of Goray are confronted with anti-semitic dangers, religious fervor and false messianism ...
Isaac B. Singer's typewriter worked as a time machine. Destination: Seventeenth century, Poland.Coordinates: an extremely believable choral portrait of superstitious dwellers in a Jewish shtetl in the middle of nowhere. Co-starring: -horns and drums- the Messiah (he will show up himself).Warning: be...
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