The Jew of New York by Ben Katchor

The Jew of New York by Ben Katchor

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.

Hand-Drying in America, The Jew of New York, The Beauty Supply District, and The Cardboard Valise are all cartoons by Ben Katchor. He was a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and he received a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Katchor has worked on comics for publications such as The Forward, Metropolis, and The New Yorker. Katchor is the first cartoonist to have won an Obie Award, and he has collaborated on musical theatrical pieces with composer Mark Mulcahy. His TED Talk is titled Comics of Bygone New York. Katchor works as an associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York.

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ISBN 13	9780375700972
ISBN 10	0375700978
Title	The Jew of New York
Author	Ben Katchor
Series	Pantheon Graphic Library
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2000-12-26
Number of pages	112
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.