The Jew of New York (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Pantheon Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Pantheon Graphic Library
Release date:	December 2000
First published:	December 2000
Authors:	Ben Katchor
Dimensions:	213 x 206 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	112
ISBN-13:	978-0-375-70097-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Graphic novels Promotions
LSN:	0-375-70097-8
Barcode:	9780375700972

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