" In the year 1648, the wicked Ukrainian hetman, Bogdan Chmelnicki, and his followers besieged the city of Zamosć but could not take it, because it was strongly fortified; the rebelling haidamak peasants moved on to spread havoc in Tomaszów, Bilgoraj, Kraśnik, Turbin, Frampol - and in Goray, too, the town that lay in the midst of the hills at the end of the world. "

― Isaac Bashevis Singer , Satan in Goray