![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Subsequently, Frank led his followers to be baptised by the Roman Catholic church. The Frankists were persecuted in the Jewish community for their beliefs, including salvation through orgiastic rites. Fighting for the rights and emancipation of the Jews of eastern Europe, Frank encouraged his followers to transgress moral boundaries. Running to more than 1,100 pages, The Books of Jacob tells the story of Jacob Frank, a controversial Polish-Jewish religious leader and mystic who founded the Frankist sect in the 18th century. I thought Poland would be able to discuss the dark areas of our history’ The Books of Jacob, which will be released in the UK in November, is the Polish author’s first novel to appear in English since she won the 2018 Nobel prize for literature for what judges called “a narrative imagination that with encyclopaedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life”. The magnum opus of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk – a novel that has taken seven years to translate and has brought its author death threats in her native Poland – is to be published in English. ![]()
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