The Jew of New York

Author: Ulrich, Johann

Edition: 1

Number of pages: 120

Item number: 8230798

Publication date: 01-04-2009

Details: Obsessed with a utopian vision, Mordecai Noah, a New York politician and amateur playwright, in 1825 called upon all the lost tribes of Israel to gather on an island near Buffalo, hoping to establish a Jewish state there. His failed plan, a mere footnote in Jewish-American history, is the starting point for Ben Katchor's brilliantly imagined epic, which unfolds a few years later on the streets of New York. A disgraced kosher butcher, an importer of religious articles and ladies' hosiery, a pilgrim peddling soil from the Promised Land, a modern kabbalist, a man with a plan to carbonate Lake Erie – these are just some of the incredible characters who move through Katchor's universe. Their paths intertwine in their shared effort to find a place in the New World, just as it falls into an economic frenzy that can carry them into the future – or leave them bankrupt.

EAN: 9783939080336

Model: 8230798

Languages: German

Binding: Paperback

Item condition: Collectible like new

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