Satan in Goray

Satan in Goraj ( Yiddish: The SOTN in Goray ) is the first novel by the Yiddish writer and Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Content

Scene of action is the small village Goraj near Lublin in Poland today. The time dated to the mid-17th century by the under Cossack Khmelnytsky, committed to the anti-Jewish pogroms.

Slowly the life recovered and the surviving inhabitants return to their deserted city. But the trauma of murder and expulsion has left its mark in the Jewish community: the crumbling old order and the returned Rabbi tried in vain to stop the spread of Kabbalistic enthusiasm. Especially the followers of the " Messiah " Shabbtai Zvi are becoming more numerous. Their leader, the slaughterer Reb Gedaliah, first appears as a God-fearing, almost holy man. He takes over the leadership of the church, but under his influence and fueled by an increasing itself to hysteria messianic expectation gradually break the barriers of custom and law. Reb Gedaliah takes Rechele, a young tormented by illness and prophetic visions wife to be, even though she is married to another man. Rechele forfeit the demons. While it is possible to cast out the dybbuk that has taken hold of her, but she died a few days later. The hoped-for return of the Messiah does not take place and the inhabitants of Goraj are disappointed at the rubble of their existence.

Expenditure

The novel was first published in Poland in installments from January to September 1933, the literary journal globe, published singer, with his friend Aaron Zeitlin.

Book editions:

  • The SOTN in Goray. A mayseh fun fartsaytns un other dertseylungen. Farlag Matones, New York, 1943.
  • Satan in Goray. Translation by Jacob Sloan. Noonday Press, New York 1955
  • Satan in Goraj. Novel. German Ulla stallion. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1969, ISBN 3-498-06073-2. The translation is based on the English edition of Jacob Sloan. Paperback edition: rororo 5183, Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-499-15183-9
  • The SOTN in Goray ( דער שטן אין גאריי ) Farlag YL Perets, Tel- Aviv 1992
  • Literary work
  • Literature ( Yiddish )
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Novel, epic
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