Jew of New York

Name: Jew of New York
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ISBN: 9780375700972

ISBN-10: 0375700978

ISBN-13: 9780375700972

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ben Katchor

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/26/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 8.20" wide x 8.40" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English