num_pages: 161
description: Set in a Ukrainian village in the year 1649, this haunting play takes place in the aftermath of a pogrom. Only two Jews, Berish the innkeeper and his daughter Hannah, have survived the brutal Cossack raids.

                        <p>Three actors hold a mock trial of God for allowing an atrocity that ruined a scheduled performance.
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language: en
title: TRIAL OF GOD (As It Was Held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod : a Play in Three Acts)
publisher: Schocken