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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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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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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 Knopf Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A
  • Date 2000-12-26
  • 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)
  • 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

Media reviews

"The most poetic, deeply layered artist ever to draw a comic strip."

Citations

  • New York Times, 03/04/2001, Page 32

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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