num_pages: 98
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.
language: English
title: The Jew of New York
titlecomplete: The Jew of New York
genres: New York, Comix, Judaism, Graphic Novels, Jewish, Graphic Novels Comics, Novels, Comics, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 298
publisher: Pantheon