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Ben Katchor

Ben Katchor is the author of The Jew of New York. His weekly comic strips, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer and The Cardboard Valise, appear in The Forward and other newspapers. He also produces a monthly strip for Metropolis magazine. Katchor received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2000. He lives in New York City.

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The Jew of New York

Trade Paperback | December 2000 | $16.00 | 978-0-375-70097-2 (0-375-70097-8)

In 1825, Mordecai Noah, 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, a mere footnote in Jewish-American history, is the starting point for Ben...Read More

Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District

Trade Paperback | August 2003 | $16.95 | 978-0-375-70098-9 (0-375-70098-6)

Join Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, on a leisurely stroll past The Institute for Soup-Nut Research and The Municipal Birthmark Registry. Savor the smell of a phone booth, circa 1961. Sign up for a guided tour of the oldest continually vacant storefront in America. Attend a championship grave-digging competition, or, should...Read More

Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District

Hardcover | June 2000 | $22.00 | 978-0-375-40105-3 (0-375-40105-9)

Join Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, on a leisurely stroll past The Institute for Soup-Nut Research and The Municipal Birthmark Registry. Savor the smell of a phone booth, circa 1961. Sign up for a guided tour of the oldest continually vacant storefront in America. Attend a championship grave-digging competition, or, should...Read More