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The Jew of New York

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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

PublisherPantheon
Publish DateDecember 26, 2000
Pages112
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780375700972
Dimensions8.4 X 8.2 X 0.3 inches | 0.5 pounds

About the Author

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.

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