Satan in Goray - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer Satan in Goray
First published in 1955
PART ONE
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The Year 1648 in Goray
In the year 1648, the wicked Ukrainian hetman, Bogdan Chmelnicki, and his followers besieged the city of Zamosc but could not take it, because it was strongly fortified; the rebelling haidamak peasants moved on to spread havoc in Tomaszów, Bilgoraj, Krásnik, Turbin, Frampol--and in Goray, too, the town that lay in the midst of the hills at the end of the world. They slaughtered on every hand, flay ...