Description
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
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 12/26/2000
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.50h x 8.19w x 0.31d
ISBN13: 9780375700972
ISBN10: 0375700978
BISAC Categories:
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Religious
- Religion | Judaism | General
- Humor | Form | Comic Strips & Cartoons
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
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 12/26/2000
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.50h x 8.19w x 0.31d
ISBN13: 9780375700972
ISBN10: 0375700978
BISAC Categories:
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Religious
- Religion | Judaism | General
- Humor | Form | Comic Strips & Cartoons
About the Author
BEN KATCHOR is the author of The Jew of New York and Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. A 2000 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, he lives in New York.