Joel Farber
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| Name | Joel Farber |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | 20 in 1921 |
| Ethnicity | Ashkenazi Jewish (Galitzianer) |
| Occupation | Accounting Student at Lincoln College |
| Sexuality | Heterosexual |
Joel's parents immigrated to the US in 1900 from Lemberg, Galicia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. As such, like the deli owner Harvey Feingold, Joel's parents are also Galitzianers.
Joel attended the same high school as Sam and Frankie. Although he first met Sam when they were both children, he didn't start talking to Sam extensively until he met Sam again in Literature Class as well as in Debate Club and after debating about religion (Sam and Joel are both atheists), Joel - impressed by Sam's sentence structure and persuasiveness - decided to befriend him.
Joel is an argumentative young man who always wants people to know his opinion. He doesn't like people with no or few opinions and prefers the company of other similarly-argumentative people.
Joel's parents are quite strict - stricter than Sam's. Growing up, Joel had a stutter, and his mother was quite harsh on him for it (to the point of being verbally and emotionally abusive). Being bullied at school also didn't help his self-confidence.
As such, Joel grew up with a deflated self-esteem. It wasn't until high school that he started using debate as a way to become more confident and charismatic. However, his confident (almost arrogant) façade slips from time to time.
Read more about Joel here on our website: https://www.fortunusgames.com/post/joel-farber
✦ Appearance
Joel is around 166 cm tall.
| Making his opinions (especially political ones) loud and clear |
| Reading books in the library |
| Writing, research, debate |
| Debate club, the idea of law school (he's kind of disappointed he couldn't make it) |
| People who aren't "logical" (by his standard) |
| People who don't work hard and think they deserve things just for being alive |
| People who have their heads in the clouds and aren't realistic about the future - this is why he later clashes with Sam |
| People who don't care about debate and find his opinions annoying (he's offended by that) |
Find out more by reading our graphic novel, "Sam in New York"!
Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/Sam-in-New-York
Webtoon: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/sam-in-new-york/list?title_no=501948
You can read more about the themes in "Sam in New York" here on our site:
| Sam Abramov | At first, Joel was impressed by Sam's arguments at debate club and wanted to emulate, as he said, Sam's "verbal wit and logic." However, he clashes with Sam once Sam is in law school since he doesn't like how in his view, Sam is "squandering" his opportunity to become a lawyer (since Sam wants to quit law school). |
| Frankie Amato | Frankie and Joel know each other through Sam. All three of them hung around each other a lot during high school, but after graduating, they drifted apart. |
| Lev Abramov | Lev thinks that Joel is a good friend for Sam, since Joel is hard-working, studious, and does not take part in distractions like parties, etc. |
| ● Joel loves eating at Feingold's. Like Sam, he likes their pastrami the most. |
| ● Joel isn't that close with Frankie and is pretty much only friends with him because they're both friends with Sam |
| ● Joel finds Frankie a bit boring and wonders why Sam is friends with him (secretly) |
| ● Joel secretly wanted to be valedictorian, but Sam got the position since he was more popular, and Joel kind of resents himself for not having the social skills to appeal to a wider audience. |
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