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ings laden with anachronis-
tic advertisements unmis-
takably evoke the fading
Yiddish-American world of
his native New York.
Nowhere is this more
evident than in the names
Katchor gives to charac-
ters, places, and all things
commercial. Striving for
`the right combination of
sense and nonsense,"
Katchor mixes judicious
amounts of Yiddish and
medical Latin to create
The comic-strip and radio character
the stomach-turning
Julius Knipl, a "real estate photographer,"
Gingiva Cafe, the arche-
documents the underbelly of the urban life.
typal Playtzer Avenue, and
his most famous character,
urban dwellers to be found in the
Jewish Museum exhibit, none bet-
Julius Knipl.
Indeed, many of Katchor's strips
ter epitomizes Katchor's vision
appear in Yiddish, and in "An
than real estate photographer
Address on Nohitol Street," a man
Julius Knipl. Featured in three
assembles a historical database to
books of collected strips and seri-
determine the connection between a alized on radio through the voice
dairy restaurant's daily specials and
of Jerry Stiller, Knipl is Katchor's
ink-and-watercolor mouthpiece,
the day's weather.
Katchor's love for urban history
through which he observes and
gives him an archaeologist's eye for
meditates upon urban life.
objects and details. Along with his
Though he is never seen actually
musings on office buildings and the
doing his job — photographing
buildings — Knipl is ever on the
musical clangings of radiators,
move, ever watchful, a true docu-
Picture-Stories features a delightful
selection of novelty items and urban
mentarian of life in the city.
artifacts from the artist's personal
And, as Picture-Stories reveals, so
is Ben Katchor. Or, as Katchor
collection.
Some of these items accompany
prefers to describe himself, "a mid-
samples of the graphic novel The
dleman in the memory business." ❑
Jew of New York, based on the fic-
tional Zionist Mordecai Noah's
attempt to found a Jewish colony
The Ben Kachor exhibit at the
on an island in the Niagara River.
Jewish
Museum in New York
The fabricated historical props that
City
runs
through Feb. 10.
accompany Noah's story include
Call (212) 423-3200 or visit
yellowed copies of the National
the museum's Web site at -
Dissembler and an Iroquois
www.thejewishmuseum.org
Haggadah.

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Among the cast of street-roving

narrative of the acculturation story.
The Solomons came from a prosper-
ous Orthodox family, whose father was
a successful importer of women's hats
from Italy. This enabled three of his
eight children to attend art school.
Abraham Solomon assumes the role
of social commentator in two connected
paintings that tell a rags-to-riches story.
In the first painting, entitled Second
Class — The Parting, a penniless youth
is seen with his recently widowed moth-
er on a train headed for a ship that will
take him to sea to seek his fortune. The
second painting, called First Class —

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shows a young man flirting with a
woman on a train while her guardian
sleeps. It caused a scandal when first
exhibited, and the artist, bowing to con-
temporary morality, repainted the scene
with the guardian awake and seated
between them.
Like her brother Abraham, Rebecca
Solomon uses the canvas as social com-
mentary. In The Governess, the artist
depicts the woeful state of such women in
Victorian England. The wistful look on
the governess' face as she absent-mindedly
tutors her young subject reflects the
uncertainty of her position both within
the family and the larger society.

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