Jacob Frank in His Time and Ours: Prof. Pawel Maciejko on the Historical Contexts of Tokarczuk's "The Books of Jacob"

In 2014, the Polish Nobel-prizewinning author Olga Tokarczuk published her epic novel The Books of Jacob about Jacob Frank, a real-life messianic leader in eighteenth-century Poland. Pawel Maciejko is an internationally recognized authority on the history of Jacob Frank. Join us for Prof. Maciejko’s scholarly response to the question: How does history inform Tokarczuk’s novel and our reading of it? There will be a question and answer period following Prof. Maciejko’s talk.

Sponsors:

The annual Lokey Program is presented by the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at Portland State University with the generous support of Lorry I. Lokey.

Cosponsors:

PSU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

PSU Department of English

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https://www.pdx.edu/judaic-studies/2022-lorry-i-lokey-program-portland-state-university