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The Jew of New York (Pantheon) Book

Whether chronicling the metropolitan peregrinations of Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, or weaving together history and fantasy in 19th- century New York, Ben Katchor's comics, filled with scratchy figures moving through gray-washed streets, feel like the relics of a half- forgotten dream. The Jew of New York takes an obscure historical footnote--an attempt in 1825 to establish a Jewish homeland in upstate New York--and spins it into an intricate tale of a rapidly developing city and its diverse inhabitants, from one-legged actresses, to wandering Jews, to masked anti-Semites. The plot wanders from place to place, never predictable, but always fascinating. The result is a like a story by Paul Auster, rewritten by Charles Dickens, as Katchor gradually draws the reader into his bizarre but precisely imagined world. Weird conspiracies, religious fanaticism, and a plan to carbonate Lake Erie are just three of the threads which Katchor weaves together, creating a version of 1830's New York that captures the spirit of the times in a way that history cannot. The reader is never quite sure what is true, yet this powerfully imagined work is irresistibly compelling. Katchor's disturbing, deeply layered historical palimpsest transforms his collection of misfit characters and the city that they inhabit into something rich and strange.Read More

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  • Product Description

    From the creator of "Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer" comes a graphic novel of amazing originality, "the fevered dream of an amateur historian in which the 'real' lives of New York Jews . . . are fleshed out and given the breath of poetic truth" ("The New Yorker"). Line drawings.

  • 0375401040
  • 9780375401046
  • Ben Katchor
  • 31 January 1999
  • Random House Inc
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 97
  • 1
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