" Singer writes in various stories about the concept of a town or a family being taken over by the devil, by evil. Indeed one of these stories, "The Gentleman from Cracow," seems virtually identical to "Satan in Goray," which I read a few years back. Somehow this externalization of evil feels wrong to me, or at least unhelpful. No one is really responsible for anything: the devil made me do it. Writing just a few years after the war and the holocaust, could Singer really see things in these terms? Of course the depiction of small-town Jewish life in Poland has plenty of charm. "
— Jgknobler, 1/15/2014