The Vicar Forane Benedykt Chmielowski writes to El?bieta Dru?backa
Of the unexpected guest who comes in the night to Father Chmielowski
Of the cave in the shape of the alef
17.
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 ?ubieński, Bishop of Lwów
Father Pikulski writes to Senator ?ubieński, Bishop of Lwów
From Antoni Moliwda-Kossakowski to His Excellency Bishop ?ubieński
Knives and forks
18.
Of how Ivanie, a little village on the Dniester, becomes a republic
Of the sleeves of Sabbatai Tzvi’s holy shirt
Of the working 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 ?ubieński
Of the everlasting interconnectedness between divinity and sinfulness
Of God
“The miller grinds the flower”
IV. THE BOOK OF THE COMET
19.
Of the comet that augurs the end of the world and brings about the Shekhinah
Of 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 name
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
20.
What Yente sees from the vault of Lwów cathedral on July 17, 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 So?tyk
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 Pawe? 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
21.
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 Radziwi??’s
Of sad turns in Lublin
22.
The inn on the right bank of the Vistula
Of events in Warsaw and the papal nuncio
Of Katarzyna and her dominion over Warsaw
Katarzyna Kossakowska writes to her cousin
What is served for Christmas Eve dinner at Mrs. Kossakowska’s
Avacha and her two dolls
A doll for Salusia ?ab?cka, and Father Chmielowski’s tales of a library and a ceremonious baptism
Father Gaudenty Pikulski, a Bernardine, interrogates the naive
Father Gaudenty Pikulski writes to Primate ?ubieński
The cornflower-blue ?upan and the red kontusz
What was going on in Warsaw when Jacob disappeared
Spit on this fire
An ocean of questions that will sink even the strongest battleship
23.
What hunting is like at Hieronim Florian Radziwi??’s
Scraps: Of the three paths of the story and how telling a tale can be its own deed
Hana, consider in your heart
V. THE BOOK OF METAL AND SULFUR
24.
The messianic machine, how it works
Of Jacob’s arrival, on a February night in 1760, in Cz?stochowa
What Jacob’s prison is like
The flagellants
The holy picture that conceals without revealing
A letter in Polish
A visit to the monastery
Upupa dicit
Of Jacob’s learning to read and where the Poles come from
Of Jan Wo?owski and Mateusz Matuszewski, who are the next to come to Cz?stochowa, in November of 1760
El?bieta Dru?backa to Father Benedykt Chmielowski, Vicar Forane of Rohatyn, Tarnów, Christmas, 1760
El?bieta Dru?backa’s heavy golden heart offered to the Black Madonna
25.
Yente sleeping under stork wings
Of Yente’s measurement of graves
A letter from Nahman Jakubowski to the Lord in Cz?stochowa
Gifts from the Besht
The larch manor in Wojs?awice and Zwierzchowski’s teeth
Of torture and curses
How Hayah prophesies
Edom is shaken to its foundations
Of how the interregnum translates into the traffic patterns of the carriages on Krakowskie Przedmie?cie
Pinkas edits the Documenta Judaeos
Who Pinkas runs into at the market in Lwów
A mirror and ordinary glass
Daily life in prison and of keeping children in a box
The hole that leads to the abyss, or a visit from Tovah and his son Hayim Turk in 1765
El?bieta Dru?backa writes from the Bernardine monastery in Tarnów a last letter to the canon Benedykt Chmielowski in Firlejów
Of bringing Moliwda back to life
Of wandering caves
Of failed legations and history laying siege to the monastery walls
Of the passing of Lady Hana in February of 1770 and of her final resting place
Scraps: Being under siege
VI. THE BOOK OF THE DISTANT COUNTRY
26.
Yente reads passports
Of the Dobrushka family in Prossnitz
Of new life in Brünn and the ticking of clocks
Of Moshe Dobrushka and the feast of the Leviathan
Of the house by the cathedral and the delivery of maiden
Scraps: How to catch a fish in muddied water
The Lord’s words
The bird that hops out of a snuffbox
A thousand compliments, or: Of the wedding of Moshe Dobrushka, or Thomas von Sch?nfeld
Of the emperor and people from everywhere and nowhere
Of the bear from Avacha Frank’s dream
Of the high life
A machine that plays chess
27.
How Nahman Piotr Jakubowski is appointed an ambassador
The return of Bishop So?tyk
What’s happening among the Lord’s Warsaw machna
Eine Anzeige, or: A denunciation
Coffee with milk: The effects of consumption
A hernia, and the Lord’s words
Of a proclivity for secret experiments on substances
Every variety of ash, or: Recipes for homemade gold
How the Lord’s dreams see the world
Of the lovemaking of Franciszek Wo?owski
Of Samuel Ascherbach, son of Gitla and Asher
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