The Jew of New York
Ben Katchor
(Author)
Description
In 1825, 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 is the starting point for this brilliantly imagined epic.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.
Product Details
Price
$18.00
Publisher
Knopf Publishing Group
Publish Date
December 26, 2000
Pages
112
Dimensions
8.19 X 8.5 X 0.31 inches | 0.53 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780375700972
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BEN KATCHOR is the author of The Jew of New York and Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. A 2000 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, he lives in New York.
Reviews
"The most poetic, deeply layered artist ever to draw a comic strip."