Books like Satan in Goray
In the town of Goray, rebuilt after the massacres of 1648, the news that the messiah Sabbatai Zevi has come drives the community into a frenzy.
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The Collected Stories
Forty-seven stories Singer chose himself, from the demons and holy fools of the old Polish shtetl to the survivors living out their lives in Manhattan and Miami.
Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
Stories of the Jewish villages of old Poland, among them Gimpel the baker, the butt of every joke in town, who chooses to believe whatever he is told.
The Books of Jacob
The 18th-century Polish-Jewish mystic Jacob Frank founds a movement that carries his followers across the borders of empire and faith.
Jerusalem
A revival movement splits a farming parish in Dalarna, and a group of villagers sells their ancestral farms to follow its preacher to a religious colony in Jerusalem.
Primeval and Other Times
The village of Primeval, guarded at its four borders by archangels, lives through the twentieth century, from the First World War into the 1980s, as its people and its spirits keep their own time.
The Promised Land
In the booming textile city of Łódź in the 1880s, three friends, a Pole, a German and a Jew, scheme to build a factory of their own in a place where everything is for sale.
Harvest
On the morning after harvest in a remote English village, two fires and three strangers on the edge of the common start a week that will end the old way of life there.
The Peasants
A year in the life of the village of Lipce, autumn to summer, centred on the rich widowed farmer Maciej Boryna, his marriage to the young beauty Jagna and his son Antek's fury.
The Crucible
A 1953 play about the 1692 Salem witch trials, written in answer to the anti-Communist hearings of its day, in which a town lets a vengeful girl's accusations run its court.
Tevye the Dairyman
Tevye, a poor Jewish dairyman in a village in Ukraine, tells the author how his daughters, one after another, break with tradition.
The Exorcist
When a film actress living in Georgetown becomes convinced that her young daughter Regan is possessed, she turns to Father Damien Karras, a Jesuit psychiatrist who is losing his faith, and the exorcism that follows becomes a battle for everyone involved.
The Melancholy of Resistance
A circus arrives in a frozen Hungarian town with a giant stuffed whale and a mysterious figure called the Prince, and the town slides into mob violence.