The Jew of New York by Ben Katchor PDF
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The Jew of New York by Ben Katchor PDF
The Jew of New York is a graphic novel by Ben Katchor, inspired by Mordecai Manuel Noah's attempt to establish a Jewish homeland in Grand Island, New York in the 1820s. It was originally serialized in the pages of The Jewish Daily Forward before being published in book form in 1999.
Review in the New York Times:
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/10/reviews/990110.10hobermt.html?_...
....................In his new graphic novel, ''The Jew of New York,'' parts of which appeared in The Forward in 1992 and 1993, Katchor excavates an even earlier metropolis -- older, more American. More elaborately plotted than his Knipl adventures, the story is set in the New York of 1830. Its inspiration is an obscure incident in Jewish American history -- the attempt in 1825 by the journalist-politician Maj. Mordecai Manuel Noah to establish the city of Ararat as a refuge for the world's Jews on an island in the Niagara River between the United States and Canada.
In Katchor's drawings, reality typically has the quality of a facade put up to conceal the ruins of some fantastic scheme, and Noah's bizarre enterprise is more alluded to than represented. A disgraced kosher slaughterer named Nathan Kishon returns to New York after a brief stay in Ararat and five years wandering in the upstate wilderness. His arrival in the city coincides with the New World Theater's preparations for ''The Jew of New York,'' a burlesque of Major Noah's utopia written by Prof. Solidus, an anti-Semitic pamphleteer (who conceals his identity behind a sinister veil). Katchor introduces a large cast and a half-dozen subplots while spending nearly a quarter of the narrative on Kishon's upstate adventures, as recounted over beers in the Chaldean Gardens to an unscrupulous importer of religious objects, Mr. Marah. Some concentration is required to follow the skein of Katchor's plot -- which is rendered all the more tangled by his talkative characters..............................
A word about the physical book itself: The spidery drawings of Katchor's ''historical romance'' are elegantly bound between two pieces of embossed but unfinished cardboard and augmented throughout by an assortment of fake documents, facsimile handbills and period maps. ''The Jew of New York'' is not only something to read but to ponder -- an object nearly as strange and striking as the story it contains.
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