5/27/2023 0 Comments The books of jacob tokarczukHe wants, effectively, to create an encyclopedia which would be a compilation of all existing works. We open with Chmielowski as he tries to expand his sources. Chmielowski was a priest and is best known for having written the first encyclopedia in Polish and much of his story is about his efforts to do this, involving, in particularly, his efforts to get hold of books, a rare commodity in those days, which involved him in contacts with the Jewish community. That is, he claimed to be a real Messiah and, specifically, to be the reincarnation of Sabbatai Zevi, a false Messiah of the late seventeenth century. This monumental work – nearly a thousand pages long – tells the stories of Jacob Frank and Benedykt Chmielowski, two eighteenth century Polish religious leaders, the first, of course, Jewish, and the second Catholic, as well as many other historical characters of that period.įrank was what was known as a false Messiah. Home » Poland » Olga Tokarczuk » Księgi Jakubowe (The Books of Jacob) Olga Tokarczuk: Księgi Jakubowe (The Books of Jacob)
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