| The Jew of New York Contributor(s): Katchor, Ben (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375700978 ISBN-13: 9780375700972 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2000 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Comics & Graphic Novels | Religious - Religion | Judaism - General - Humor | Form - Comic Strips & Cartoons |
| Dewey: 741.597 |
| LCCN: 98023996 |
| Series: Pantheon Graphic Novels |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 8.19" W x 8.5" (0.53 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Geographic Orientation - New York |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |