"Zlateh the Goat" is a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story was included in his collection of short stories, Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories (1966), which was illustrated by Maurice Sendak. "Zlateh the Goat," like most of Singer's stories, was written in Yiddish and translated into English.
The story takes place just before Hanukkah, a Jewish holiday, and is set in a rural Jewish village somewhere in Eastern Europe. "Zlateh the Goat" was adopted as a short film of the same name in 1973 by Weston Woods Studios, dir. Gene Deitch.
Singer told an interviewer in 1977 that the most important thing about stories was that they. "have beauty in themselves." However, his work, in its...
