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100	1		_aTokarczuk, Olga. _911879
245	1	4	_aThe Books of Jacob.
264		1	_aLondon : _bFitzcarraldo Editions, _c2021.
264		4	_c©2021.
300			_a1 online resource (679 pages)
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505	0		_aIntro -- TITLE PAGE -- PRAISE -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE -- I.: THE BOOK OF FOG -- I.: 1752, ROHATYN -- II.: OF CALAMITOUS LEAF SPRINGS AND KATARZYNA KOSSAKOWSKA'S FEMININE COMPLAINT -- OF BLOOD-STAINED SILKS -- THE WHITE END OF THE TABLE AT STAROSTA ŁABĘCKI'S -- III.: OF ASHER RUBIN AND HIS GLOOMY THOUGHTS -- THE BEEHIVE, OR: THE HOME OF THE SHORR FAMILY IN ROHATYN -- IN THE BETH MIDRASH -- YENTE, OR: NOT A GOOD TIME TO DIE -- WHAT WE READ IN THE ZOHAR -- OF THE SWALLOWED AMULET -- IV.: PHARO AND MARIAGE -- POLONIA EST PARADISUS JUDAEORUM… -- OF THE PRESBYTERY IN FIRLEJÓW AND THE SINFUL PASTOR LIVING IN IT -- FATHER CHMIELOWSKI TRIES TO WRITE A LETTER TO MRS. DRUŻBACKA -- ELŻBIETA DRUŻBACKA WRITES TO FATHER CHMIELOWSKI -- BISHOP SOŁTYK WRITES A LETTER TO THE PAPAL NUNCIO -- ZELIK -- II: THE BOOK OF SAND -- V.: OF HOW THE WORLD WAS BORN OF GOD'S EXHAUSTION -- SCRAPS, OR: A STORY BORN OF TRAVEL'S EXHAUSTION, BY NAHMAN SAMUEL BEN LEVI, RABBI OF BUSK WHERE I COME FROM -- MY YOUTH -- OF THE CARAVAN, AND HOW I MET REB MORDKE -- MY RETURN TO PODOLIA, AND A STRANGE VISION -- ON AN EXPEDITION WITH MORDECHAI TO SMYRNA, DUE TO A DREAM OF GOAT DROPPINGS -- VI.: OF A STRANGE WEDDING GUEST IN WHITE STOCKINGS AND SANDALS -- NAHMAN'S TALE: JACOB'S FIRST MENTION -- ISOHAR'S SCHOOL, AND WHO GOD REALLY IS: THE NEXT INSTALMENT IN THE STORY OF NAHMAN BEN LEVI OF BUSK -- OF JACOB THE SIMPLETON AND TAXES -- OF NAHMAN'S APPEARANCE TO NAHMAN, OR: THE PIT OF DARKNESS AND THE SEED OF LIGHT -- OF STONES AND THE RUNAWAY WITH THE HORRIBLE FACE -- OF HOW NAHMAN WINDS UP WITH YENTE AND FALLS ASLEEP ON THE FLOOR BY HER BED -- OF YENTE'S ONWARD WANDERINGS THROUGH TIME -- OF THE TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF THE AMULET'S DISAPPEARANCE -- WHAT THE ZOHAR SAYS -- PESEL'S TALE OF THE PODHAJCE GOAT AND THE STRANGE GRASS.
505	8		_aFATHER CHMIELOWSKI WRITES A LETTER TO MRS DRUŻBACKA, WHOM HE HOLDS IN SUCH HIGH ESTEEM, IN JANUARY 1753, FROM FIRLEJÓW -- VII.: YENTE'S STORY -- VIII.: HONEY, AND NOT EATING TOO MUCH OF IT, OR: ISOHAR'S SCHOOL IN SMYRNA, IN THE TURKISH LAND -- SCRAPS: WHAT WE WERE DOING IN SMYRNA IN THE JEWISH YEAR 5511 AND HOW WE MET MOLIWDA, AND ALSO,  HOW THE SPIRIT IS LIKE A NEEDLE THAT POKES A HOLE IN THE WORLD -- IX.: OF THE WEDDING IN NIKOPOL, THE MYSTERY UNDER THE HUPPAH, AND THE ADVANTAGES OF BEING FOREIGN -- IN CRAIOVA: OF TRADE ON HOLY DAYS AND OF HERSHEL, FACED WITH THE DILEMMA OF THE CHERRIES -- OF A PEARL AND HANA -- X.: WHO THE PERSON IS WHO GATHERS HERBS ON MOUNT ATHOS -- XI.: HOW IN THE TOWN OF CRAIOVA MOLIWDA-KOSSAKOWSKI RUNS INTO JACOB -- THE STORY OF HIS LORDSHIP MOLIWDA, OR ANTONI KOSSAKOWSKI, OF THE ŚLEPOWRON COAT OF ARMS, WHICH IS ALSO KNOWN AS KORWIN -- OF WHAT DRAWS PERSONS TOGETHER, AND CERTAIN CLARIFICATIONS REGARDING THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS -- JACOB'S STORY ABOUT THE RING -- SCRAPS: WHAT WE SAW AMONG MOLIWDA'S BOGOMILS -- XII.: OF JACOB'S EXPEDITION TO THE GRAVE OF NATHAN OF GAZA -- OF HOW NAHMAN FOLLOWS IN JACOB'S FOOTSTEPS -- OF HOW JACOB FACES OFF WITH THE ANTICHRIST -- THE APPEARANCE OF RUACH HAKODESH, WHEN THE SPIRIT DESCENDS INTO MAN -- OF WHY SALONIKA DOES NOT CARE FOR JACOB -- SCRAPS: OF THE CURSE OF SALONIKA AND JACOB'S MOULTING -- SCRAPS: OF TRIANGLES AND CROSSES -- SCRAPS: OF MEETING JACOB'S FATHER IN ROMAN, AND ALSO OF THE STAROSTA AND THE THIEF -- OF JACOB'S DANCE -- III: THE BOOK OF THE ROAD -- XIII.: OF THE WARM DECEMBER OF 1755, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE MONTH OF TEVET 5516, OF THE COUNTRY OF POLIN, AND PESTILENCE IN MIELNICA -- WHAT IS GLEANED BY THE SHARP GAZE OF EVERY VARIETY OF SPY -- 'THREE THINGS ARE TOO WONDROUS FOR ME -- THE FOURTH I CAN'T UNDERSTAND' THE BOOK OF PROVERBS, 30:18 -- THE LORD'S FEMALE GUARDIANS.
505	8		_aSCRAPS BY NAHMAN OF BUSK KEPT SECRET FROM JACOB -- OF SECRET ACTS IN LANCKOROŃ AND AN UNFAVOURABLE EYE -- HOW GERSHON CAUGHT THE HERETICS -- OF THE POLISH PRINCESS GITLA PINKASÓWNA -- OF PINKAS AND HIS SHAMEFUL DESPAIR -- XIV.: OF THE BISHOP OF KAMIENIEC, MIKOŁAJ DEMBOWSKI, WHO DOESN'T REALIZE HE IS MERELY PASSING THROUGH THIS WHOLE AFFAIR -- OF FATHER CHMIELOWSKI'S DEFENCE OF HIS GOOD NAME BEFORE THE BISHOP -- WHAT ELŻBIETA DRUŻBACKA WRITES TO FATHER CHMIELOWSKI IN FEBRUARY OF 1756 FROM RZEMIEŃ ON THE WISŁOKA -- FATHER CHMIELOWSKI TO ELŻBIETA DRUŻBACKA -- WHAT PINKAS RECORDS, AND WHAT GOES UNRECORDED -- OF THE SEDER HAHEREM, OR THE ORDER OF THE CURSE -- OF YENTE, WHO IS ALWAYS PRESENT AND SEES ALL -- THE BISHOP OF KAMIENIEC MIKOŁAJ DEMBOWSKI WRITES A LETTER TO THE PAPAL NUNCIO SERRA, WHILE HIS SECRETARY ADDS A LITTLE SOMETHING FROM HIMSELF -- BISHOP DEMBOWSKI WRITES TO BISHOP SOŁTYK -- MEANWHILE… -- HOW GITLA'S STEPMOTHER'S PESSIMISTIC PREDICTIONS COME TRUE -- XV.: HOW THE OLD MINARET IN KAMIENIEC TURNS INTO A COLUMN WITH THE HOLY MOTHER ON TOP -- WHAT BISHOP DEMBOWSKI PONDERS AS HIS FACE IS BEING SHAVED -- OF HAYAH'S TWO NATURES -- THE SHAPES OF THE NEW LETTERS -- OF KRYSA AND HIS PLANS FOR THE FUTURE -- XVI.: OF THE YEAR 1757 AND OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CERTAIN AGE-OLD TRUTHS OVER THE SUMMER AT THE KAMIENIEC PODOLSKI DISPUTATION -- OF BURNING BOOKS -- OF FATHER PIKULSKI'S EXPLANATION TO THE NOBLES OF THE RULES OF GEMATRIA -- OF NEWLY APPOINTED ARCHBISHOP DEMBOWSKI, WHO IS PREPARING FOR A JOURNEY -- OF THE LIFE OF DEAD YENTE IN THE WINTER OF 1757, ALSO KNOWN AS THE YEAR THE TALMUD WAS BURNED, FOLLOWED BY THE BOOKS OF THOSE WHO BURNED THE TALMUD -- OF ASHER RUBIN'S ADVENTURES WITH LIGHT, AND HIS GRANDFATHER'S WITH A WOLF -- OF THE POLISH PRINCESS IN ASHER RUBIN'S HOUSE.
505	8		_aOF THE REVERSAL OF CIRCUMSTANCES: KATARZYNA KOSSAKOWSKA WRITES TO BISHOP KAJETAN SOŁTYK -- POMPA FUNEBRIS: 29 JANUARY 1758 -- OF SPILLED BLOOD AND HUNGRY LEECHES -- MRS ELŻBIETA DRUŻBACKA TO FATHER CHMIELOWSKI, OR: OF THE PERFECTION OF IMPRECISE FORMS -- THE VICAR FORANE BENEDYKT CHMIELOWSKI WRITES TO ELŻBIETA DRUŻBACKA -- OF THE UNEXPECTED GUEST WHO COMES IN THE NIGHT TO FATHER CHMIELOWSKI -- OF THE CAVE IN THE SHAPE OF THE ALEF -- XVII.: SCRAPS: MY HEART'S QUANDARY -- HOW IN GIURGIU WE TALKED JACOB INTO RETURNING TO POLAND -- FATHER BENEDYKT WEEDS THE OREGANO -- THE RUNAWAY -- THE RUNAWAY'S TALE: JEWISH PURGATORY -- COUSINS PUTTING UP A UNIFIED FRONT AND LAUNCHING THEIR CAMPAIGN -- MOLIWDA SETS OUT AND BEHOLDS THE KINGDOM OF THE VAGABONDS -- HOW MOLIWDA IS MADE MESSENGER IN THE SERVICE OF A DIFFICULT CAUSE -- OF USEFUL TRUTHS AND USELESS TRUTHS, AND THE MORTAR POST AS A MEANS OF COMMUNICATION -- MRS KOSSAKOWSKA, WIFE OF THE CASTELLAN OF KAMIENIEC, WRITES TO SENATOR ŁUBIEŃSKI, BISHOP OF LWÓW -- FATHER PIKULSKI WRITES TO SENATOR ŁUBIEŃSKI, BISHOP OF LWÓW -- FROM ANTONI MOLIWDA-KOSSAKOWSKI TO HIS EXCELLENCY BISHOP ŁUBIEŃSKI -- KNIVES AND FORKS -- XVIII.: OF HOW IVANIE, A LITTLE VILLAGE ON THE DNIESTER, BECOMES A REPUBLIC -- OF THE SLEEVES OF SABBATAI TZVI'S HOLY SHIRT -- OF THE WORKINGS OF JACOB'S TOUCH -- OF THE WOMEN'S TALK WHILE PLUCKING CHICKENS -- OF WHICH OF THE WOMEN WILL BE CHOSEN -- HANA'S GLOOMY GAZE NOTES THESE DETAILS OF IVANIE -- OF MOLIWDA'S VISIT TO IVANIE -- DIVINE GRACE, WHICH CALLS OUT FROM THE DARKNESS INTO THE LIGHT -- THE SUPPLICATION TO ARCHBISHOP ŁUBIEŃSKI -- OF THE EVERLASTING INTERCONNECTEDNESS BETWEEN DIVINITY AND SINFULNESS -- OF GOD -- 'THE MILLER GRINDS THE FLOWER' -- IV: THE BOOK OF THE COMET -- XIX.: OF THE COMET THAT AUGURS THE END OF THE WORLD AND BRINGS ABOUT THE SHEKHINAH.
505	8		_aOF YANKIEL OF GLINNO AND THE TERRIBLE SMELL OF SILT -- OF STRANGE DEEDS, HOLY SILENCE AND OTHER IVANIE DIVERSIONS -- A TALE OF TWO TABLETS -- SCRAPS, OR: EIGHT MONTHS IN THE LORD'S COMMUNITY OF IVANIE -- OF DOUBLES, TRINITIES AND FOURSOMES -- OF CANDLES PUT OUT -- A MAN WHO DOES NOT HAVE A PIECE OF LAND IS NOT A MAN -- OF STABLEHANDS AND THE STUDY OF THE POLISH LANGUAGE -- OF NEW NAMES -- OF PINKAS, WHO DESCENDS INTO HELL IN SEARCH OF HIS DAUGHTER -- ANTONI MOLIWDA-KOSSAKOWSKI WRITES TO KATARZYNA KOSSAKOWSKA -- KATARZYNA KOSSAKOWSKA TO ANTONI MOLIWDA-KOSSAKOWSKI -- OF THE CROSS AND DANCING IN THE ABYSS -- XX.: WHAT YENTE SEES FROM THE VAULT OF LWÓW CATHEDRAL ON 17 JULY 1759 -- OF ASHER'S FAMILIAL BLISS -- THE SEVENTH POINT OF THE DISPUTATION -- OF SECRET HAND AND EYE SIGNALS AND HINTS -- KATARZYNA KOSSAKOWSKA WRITES TO BISHOP KAJETAN SOŁTYK -- OF THE TROUBLES OF FATHER CHMIELOWSKI -- OF PINKAS, WHO CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHAT SIN HE HAS COMMITTED -- OF THE HUMAN DELUGE THAT OVERWHELMS THE STREETS OF LWÓW -- THE MAYORKOWICZES -- NAHMAN AND HIS RAIMENT OF GOOD DEEDS -- FATHER MIKULSKI'S BILLS AND THE MARKET OF CHRISTIAN NAMES -- OF WHAT HAPPENS TO FATHER CHMIELOWSKI IN LWÓW -- AT THE PRINTING PRESS OF PAWEŁ JÓZEF GOLCZEWSKI, HIS MAJESTY THE KING'S PREFERRED TYPOGRAPHER -- OF PROPER PROPORTIONS -- THE BAPTISM -- OF JACOB FRANK'S SHAVED BEARD, AND THE NEW FACE THAT EMERGES FROM UNDERNEATH IT -- XXI.: OF THE PLAGUE THAT DESCENDS UPON LWÓW IN THE AUTUMN OF 1759 -- WHAT MOLIWDA WRITES TO HIS COUSIN KATARZYNA KOSSAKOWSKA -- IN WHICH KATARZYNA KOSSAKOWSKA DARES TO DISTURB THE POWERFUL OF THIS WORLD -- OF THE TRAMPLING OF COINS AND USING A KNIFE TO MAKE A V FORMATION OF CRANES MAKE A U-TURN -- SCRAPS: AT RADZIWIŁŁ'S -- OF SAD TURNS IN LUBLIN -- XXII.: THE INN ON THE RIGHT BANK OF THE VISTULA -- OF EVENTS IN WARSAW AND THE PAPAL NUNCIO.
505	8		_aOF KATARZYNA AND HER DOMINION OVER WARSAW.
520			_aIn The Books of Jacob, Tokarczuk traverses the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in search of Jacob Frank, a highly controversial historical figure from the eighteenth century and the leader of a mysterious, heretical Jewish splinter group that converted at different times to both Islam and Catholicism.
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700	1		_aCroft, Jennifer. _911882
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