The Books of Jacob

Intro -- TITLE PAGE -- PRAISE -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE -- I.: THE BOOK OF FOG -- I.: 1752, ROHATYN -- II.: OF CALAMITOUS LEAF SPRINGS AND KATARZYNA KOSSAKOWSKA'S FEMININE COMPLAINT -- OF BLOOD-STAINED SILKS -- THE WHITE END OF THE TABLE AT STAROSTA ŁABĘCKI'S -- III.: OF ASHER RUBIN AND HIS GLOOMY THOUGHTS -- THE BEEHIVE, OR: THE HOME OF THE SHORR FAMILY IN ROHATYN -- IN THE BETH MIDRASH -- YENTE, OR: NOT A GOOD TIME TO DIE -- WHAT WE READ IN THE ZOHAR -- OF THE SWALLOWED AMULET -- IV.: PHARO AND MARIAGE -- POLONIA EST PARADISUS JUDAEORUM... -- OF THE PRESBYTERY IN FIRLEJÓW AND THE SINFUL PASTOR LIVING IN IT -- FATHER CHMIELOWSKI TRIES TO WRITE A LETTER TO MRS. DRUŻBACKA -- ELŻBIETA DRUŻBACKA WRITES TO FATHER CHMIELOWSKI -- BISHOP SOŁTYK WRITES A LETTER TO THE PAPAL NUNCIO -- ZELIK -- II: THE BOOK OF SAND -- V.: OF HOW THE WORLD WAS BORN OF GOD'S EXHAUSTION -- SCRAPS, OR: A STORY BORN OF TRAVEL'S EXHAUSTION, BY NAHMAN SAMUEL BEN LEVI, RABBI OF BUSK WHERE I COME FROM -- MY YOUTH -- OF THE CARAVAN, AND HOW I MET REB MORDKE -- MY RETURN TO PODOLIA, AND A STRANGE VISION -- ON AN EXPEDITION WITH MORDECHAI TO SMYRNA, DUE TO A DREAM OF GOAT DROPPINGS -- VI.: OF A STRANGE WEDDING GUEST IN WHITE STOCKINGS AND SANDALS -- NAHMAN'S TALE: JACOB'S FIRST MENTION -- ISOHAR'S SCHOOL, AND WHO GOD REALLY IS: THE NEXT INSTALMENT IN THE STORY OF NAHMAN BEN LEVI OF BUSK -- OF JACOB THE SIMPLETON AND TAXES -- OF NAHMAN'S APPEARANCE TO NAHMAN, OR: THE PIT OF DARKNESS AND THE SEED OF LIGHT -- OF STONES AND THE RUNAWAY WITH THE HORRIBLE FACE -- OF HOW NAHMAN WINDS UP WITH YENTE AND FALLS ASLEEP ON THE FLOOR BY HER BED -- OF YENTE'S ONWARD WANDERINGS THROUGH TIME -- OF THE TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF THE AMULET'S DISAPPEARANCE -- WHAT THE ZOHAR SAYS -- PESEL'S TALE OF THE PODHAJCE GOAT AND THE STRANGE GRASS.