The Books of Jacob

In the mid-eighteenth century, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will reinvent himself again and again - pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order with scandalous rumours of his sect's secret rituals and the spread…