Dark Messiah: Jacob Frank, Poland's Puzzling Cult Leader

Dark Messiah: The Story of Jacob Frank, Poland's Puzzling Cult Leader
Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk's Magnum Opus has been translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft. An epic historical fiction that spans the Polish Commonwealth, exploring the life of Jacob Frank a controversial, false Messiah whose love for breast milk knows no bounds.
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0:00 - Intro
2:20 - Maria's article // tinyurl.com/yckn5hhw
6:37 - Long Subtitles Part 1
7:33 - Long Subtitles Part 2
8:53 - A drinking game
9:25 - Pierogi time
11:54 - Meme review
13:20 - Washington Post
15:00 - The Books of Jacob (Musical Edition)
18:32 - Questionable morals
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[@ForensicHistorian]

The first Jewish US supreme court justice, Louis Brandeis was a Frankist Sabbatean. He kept a picture of Frank's daughter on his desk.

[@Dzika2010]

As a polish person, thank you for caring so much to do pierogies and saluting for the fallen pierogies :) there is always some fallen soldiers lol and I can say that you have inspired me to read more books :)

[@mgenkin]

This was the most fun, but also the most accurate review of BOJ! Thank you for the shout out! I feel deeply flattered, like a celebrity has mentioned me )

[@KDbooks]

Дякую! Everyone was so grateful for your insight and knowledge! It would be absolutely wrong to not mention yourself! All of the love from the Discord and thank you for sharing your love of Ukrainian history and literature with us ♥️

[@mgenkin]

@@KDbooks you are welcome! Hopefully we get to do it again! Especially if Olga does write a book about Ukrainian/Polish relations!

[@sisifa.cansada]

"Into the minds of those assembled in those cramped quartes, in that low-ceilinged room, comes a thought that reassures them. Everyone is connected to everyone else. The world is simply the multiplication of this room in the Shorr's Rohatyn home above the market square"

[@e30325ikiller]

theres police 24/7 in front of offenbachs synagogue

[@jonathanfischer3263]

I loved Drive your plow, so I think I may give this a try. Thx for the review and for the laughs! I can always count on your vids for some giggles!

[@misremembered72]

Just finished the book today. Tremendous summary/review, great work! Definitely spoke to what I liked about it as well as how frustrating it could be as a book I’m reading for enjoyment

[@osleuszy428]

Interesting to hear you talking about it. Despite tiny flaws I loved The Books of Jakob, but the history of Poland is a well known concept to me (oh modest me), but even to most Poles the history Tokarczuk writes about is not well known. BTW Ch like in Chmielowski in Polish is always pronounced like H in home, for the lack of better sound. Lovely daughter you have, and pierogi look great! Oh and the song, Olga needs to hear it :-)

[@KDbooks]

Kamil, Dziękuję! Do you know how panicked I was filmed and the state of despair I was in editing this knowing my Polish pronounciation was… questionable 😂 (also, how DO you say Wajgełe?) Will take all the pierogi compliments!

[@SM-vr8dz]

I want that song to hit the charts! I love it! Also, I’m thoroughly scared to read this book now.

[@CourtneyFerriter]

"Are you just innately curious about Polish history?" "Yeah." 🤣🤣🤣 Absolutely loved your "Change My Mind" meme and the musical section. 10/10 would highly recommend this review. 😊

[@drawyourbook876]

Great review. Dora is adorable, and I have been slowly convinced to pick up this book, however daunting it might be...

[@jonathanfischer3263]

ok, hold up. I wrote my last comment before you broke into song! I am laughing so hard right now. Amazeballs!

[@Paromita_M]

Amazing review - informative and entertaining.😀 I've read and liked Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead by this author but this book has defeated me so far. Hopefully some day.

[@audreyh7892]

They need to use that song in the publicity for the Prize.

[@illustratorsam]

Art.

[@KDbooks]

♥️♥️♥️

[@danielionh3386]

I heart your videos. By a chance can you recommend an amazing translated book? I have been on translated book journey this year and want to keep it going? Just out of recommendations now. Thanks

[@KDbooks]

Luckily for you, I seem to mostly read and review translated works now 😂 Check out Kawakami’s Heaven, Schalansky’s Inventory of Loss, any Solzhenitsyn, Vuillard’s The War of the Poor, and Xue’s We Live in the Slums (all of those I have reviews on 😊)

[@mgenkin]

And Serhiy Zhadan’s The Orphanage! Right? )))

[@danielionh3386]

@@KDbooks You seem to be the king of translated books on here. Thank you for recs.

[@art_and_bibliophilia]

OMG you commenting about Angela Haupt's recommendation 🤣🤣🤣

[@KDbooks]

#HauptIsOverParty

[@sisifa.cansada]

Best book review

[@CharlesHeathcote]

Well this is entertaining, but I have yet to make a decision as to whether I'll be reading this tome. Having listened to you, I wonder if this book is as dense as The Eighth Life, which I spent a rather long time reading and ended up calling a favourite. It is certainly one to mull over, even if it does sound weird as heck. (Tha certainly put a lot of work into this review and that ought to be commended.)

[@KDbooks]

If you’re going to read it, be dedicated, I took a week off and it was manic trying to remember everything that had gone on 😂

[@mgenkin]

Having read Eighth Life I feel like I can opine! This is MUCH more dense and complex than Eighth Life. But it is also much more of a serious literature, although I love Eighth Life too

[@CharlesHeathcote]

@@KDbooks Ah, dedication, not an attribute that has been likened to me before, but I'm sure I can summon some sort of mindset to get it done.

[@CharlesHeathcote]

@@mgenkin Thank you for this. I suppose it's going to be a case of just doing what I've done with other hefty tomes and taking it slow. (I don't suppose you've read The Brothers Karamazov? I'm trying to think of parallels in my head and I'm feeling like if I managed that, then I can manage The Books of Jacob.)

[@billie_the_birdie]

I've been reading this book on and off for over a year. I was thinking about dnf-ing but your video has spurred me to carry on. It's beautifully written, but I came in knowing nothing so most things are going straight over my head

[@KDbooks]

Just continue knowing that you’re just not going to know all the history. The books breaks it at the halfway point

[@emmawoodhead7642]

thought you were wearing a fitzcarraldo beanie in the thumbnail for a second and then my dreams were crushed

[@KDbooks]

Calvin Klein scuppered ya 😂

[@KDbooks]

Remember, a Fitzcarraldo hat would NEED to be a bucket hat

[@theyoungfool.1895]

This is a WILD thumbnail introduction to this book and author and as a first time comer, HO BOY this was interesting!

[@KDbooks]

Start strong 😂

[@sisifa.cansada]

15:07 - PERFEITO! HAHAHAHA

[@sisifa.cansada]

Have u watched Wild Wild Country?

[@Weru212]

The Anna Von Hausswolf t-shirt😍😍😍

[@KDbooks]

One of the best live acts I’ve seen

[@SairaSabir-rk9lf]

@7:40

[@jorgemedina8083]

Thanks so much for the review! I was wondering does this have any stream of consciousness? I rather stay away from such books.

[@KDbooks]

If you’re literally avoiding ALL SoC, some of Yente’s parts are. But for like… 75 pages in a 900+ book, you’ll be fine

[@jorgemedina8083]

@@KDbooks thx 4 da honest response. I ordered it already. Looking forward to it.

[@SairaSabir-rk9lf]

@9:49

[@marcelmiguelc]

Can I sue you for making me wanna move to a country where I can find these Fitzcarraldo editions? I am in love with them

[@KDbooks]

What country you in??

[@mgenkin]

Oh no no, don’t make this mistake. FiTZCARRALDO was unreadable in my opinion. The letters were tiny and the paper was so cheap. I made a switch to the US edition as soon as it came out!

[@marcelmiguelc]

@@KDbooks Brazil unfortunately, it'll take a few years until I find any edition of this book here

[@virginiavoolf]

you should try book depository! i live in a country where they don’t sell fitzcarraldo editions but i can usually find them on there and for a really decent price & shipping!

[@doomantidote]

The memes ☠️

[@KDbooks]

Niche memes > generic memes

[@zafarbajjar6986]

Has anyone read the novel in detail. Can anyone help by sharing few points of summary of book.

[@KDbooks]

Was a 20minute video on BoJ not good enough?

[@zafarbajjar6986]

It's good, but not summary. I just needed the summary through book wise and at least to have summary before buying book. Sir, Your review is obviously good and helpful, and loving but it would be helpful if you just tell me summary in short. I'm having a project writing on this, have to select two books of Olga Tokarczuk.

[@flnance]

The Books of Jacob is by far the most boring book I've ever read. I wish I had read a textbook on Marxism or an adventure from a nursing home instead. It would be much more fun. This book shortened my life by at least three years. Total utter sh.t. The Nobel prize was given just because the sect described in the book is very strong nowadays. Rating 2.2/10. It's not 1 just because she invested an enormous amount of her time in researching.

[@malloryelein3963]

☀️ Promo-SM!

[@lowshelfesteem]

7/10????? oh come ON

[@KDbooks]

Excuse me?! And what would you rate it 😂

[@lowshelfesteem]

@@KDbooks a generous 4/10

[@KDbooks]

@@lowshelfesteem O O F T

[@thecinematicmind]

@@lowshelfesteem Ouch. But that’s fine.

[@Nastya-uj9bg]

nice looking pierogi! lol about Washington Post, can I have her job? I read books, I swear!

[@KDbooks]

I will take ALL the pierogi compliments 🙌

[@KDbooks]

Haupt more over, we got Nastya coming for ya job 😂

[@Nastya-uj9bg]

@@KDbooks if you're interested, we call them varenyky in Ukraine. Your video reminded me how we were making them (with cherries and potatoes) for a half a day with my grandpa who is not here now. To me pierogi sounds like pirogi that means 'pies' in Russian :)

[@KDbooks]

Ooooh! Drop that recipe 🙌

[@Nastya-uj9bg]

@@KDbooks Take a potato, boil it, mash it, but NOT stick it in a stew! Then fry some onions to light brown. Put it in the mashed potatoes, salt etc - tada. For cherry ones (I think they were sour cherries) just add sugar.

[@altreparole_altrevoci]

that Washington Post recc is absolutely unhinged

[@KDbooks]

Haupt did not check herself, thus has wrecked herself

[@feanor7080]

Overwritten, anti-Christian tripe.

[@thecinematicmind]

This sounds right up my alley.

[@SairaSabir-rk9lf]

@6:41