His name was Jacob Frank. He pushed its heresies so far they arrived at Christianity, complete with a Trinitarian God and a cult of the Cross. In 1759, ...

Olga Tokarczuk's mircale of a novel, "The Books of Jacob," which helped the Polish author win the 2018 Nobel Prize, is finally out in English.

Set in the mid-18th century, “The Books of Jacob” is about a charismatic self-proclaimed messiah, Jacob Frank, a young Jew who travels through the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires, attracting and ...

For a self-proclaimed messiah, any twist of fortune can be interpreted as preordained. And, who knows, it might be. At least, that’s the lesson of Jacob Frank, a charismatic 18th-century Polish ...

THE MIXED MULTITUDE: JACOB FRANK AND THE FRANKIST MOVEMENT, 1755–1816 By Pawel Maciejko University of Pennsylvania Press, 360 pages, $65 “History is written by the winners.” ...