Professor Maciejko's lecture is presented by the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at Portland State University with the generous support of Lorry I. Read the novel and join in the conversation. She is the author and editor of numerous critical studies including The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture Through the Poet’s Eye: The Travels of Zagajewski, Herbert, and Brodsky and Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of Heart, Nation, and Self. His play The Chair won the Theater Institute Award sponsored by the Estera Rachel and Ida Makinskie Jewish Theater in Warsaw in 2021.īożena Shallcross is a professor and the director of graduate studies in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. Haim Watzman is one of the leading translators of Hebrew works into English and the author of three books: Company C: An American’s Life as a Citizen-Soldier in Israel A Crack in the Earth: A Journey Up Israel’s Rift Valley and Necessary Stories. She won the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her memoir Homesick and the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. Jennifer Croft is the English-language translator of The Books of Jacob.

On Sunday, May 15, we will hold a worldwide discussion of The Books of Jacob, guided by our distinguished panelists: Pawel Maciejko offers a lecture 'Jacob Frank in His Time and Ours: On the Historical Contexts of Olga Tokarczuk's The Books of Jacob.' 11am Pacific Time, free via Zoom. The landscape and history of Ukraine feature vividly in this brilliant narrative.

The book weaves together the lives of Poles and Jews, peasants and nobility, priests and rabbis, rulers and visionaries, in an unsettling tapestry of earthy beauty and poignancy. This sprawling epic tells the story of Jacob Frank, a real-life messianic figure in eighteenth-century Poland, who led thousands of his Jewish followers into Catholic baptism. This winter her most ambitious novel, The Books of Jacob, was translated into English, having first appeared in Polish in 2014. Poland’s literary star Olga Tokarczuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019. Announcing two events-a scholarly lecture and a worldwide discussion-in honor of the new English translation of The Books of Jacob.

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