The Jew of New York Paperback - 2000
by Ben Katchor
In 1825 a New York politician and amateur playwright attempted to establish a Jewish state on an island in upstate New York. His failed plan, a mere footnote in Jewish-American history, is the foundation of this mesmerizing graphic novel that unfolds on the frenetic streets of New York in the 1830s. Illustrations.
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In 1825, Mordecai Noah, a New York politician and amateur playwright possessed of a utopian vision, summoned all the lost tribes of Israel to an island near Buffalo in the hope of establishing a Jewish state. His failed plan, a mere footnote in Jewish-American history, is the starting point for Ben Katchor's brilliantly imagined epic that unfolds on the streets of New York a few years later.
A disgraced kosher slaughterer, an importer of religious articles and women's hosiery, a pilgrim peddling soil from the Holy Land, a latter-day Kabbalist, a man with plans to carbonate Lake Erie--these are just some of the characters who move through Katchor's universe, their lives interwoven in a common struggle to settle into the New World even as it erupts into a financial frenzy that could as easily leave them bankrupt as carry them into the future.
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- Title The Jew of New York
- Author Ben Katchor
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 112
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pantheon Books, New York, New York, U.S.A
- Date 2000-12-26
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780375700972 / 0375700978
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 8.19 x 0.31 in (21.59 x 20.80 x 0.79 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98023996
- Dewey Decimal Code 741.597
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Citations
- New York Times, 11/15/2001, Page 26
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