desire for social advancement

But in the remarkable case of the Frankists [after Jacob Frank - vs], a whole community of Jews apostatized. The reactions to this, both among Jews and Christians, were powerful. Maciejko notes that “The Frankists’ baptism was seen as a monumental event unique both in size and in its theological ramifications. Even the most zealous Catholic priests were well aware that the vast majority of the Jewish conversions throughout the ages did not stem from Jewish recognition of the truth of Christianity but rather from the desire for social advancement or to avoid persecution.” -- A Polish Christian Writes the Great Jewish Novel

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Restless and rebellious, even in this messianic secret society... Frank directed his growing group of followers to practice the inversion of religious rules. Among these innovations: eating forbidden foods, feasting on fast days, and transgressing upon the boundaries of accepted sexual behavior. Most sensationally, Frankism’s rabbinic opponents accused them of conducting orgies on the Sabbath and Jewish holidays, and it seems from the evidence that there was some truth to these claims. In her novel, Tokarczuk is not reticent about providing the juicy details about these sexual transgressions.

not reticent sounds kinda enticing

A humorous claim made about some 19th- and early-20th-century translations of world classics into Yiddish is that they are “fartaytched und farbessert” (translated and improved) — a claim made often on Warsaw Yiddish theater posters for King Lear and other Shakespeare plays.