The Jew of New York (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375700972)

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.

Author: Ben Katchor
ISBN-10: 0375700978
ISBN-13: 9780375700972
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 12/26/2000
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.50h x 8.19w x 0.31d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 03/04/2001 pg. 32
New York Times 11/15/2001 pg. 26