Who is Jesus from A Walker in the City and what is their importance?

Late in the book, the author writes of his having been given a New Testament and of his discovery of Jesus, whom he refers to by the Hebrew name Jeshua (Jesus was, it must be remembered, born a Jew). Both the poetry of the words used to write about Jesus' life and the story told by those words have a powerful effect on the author, inspiring him to be both a better Jew and a better Socialist. See "Quotes", p 161 and 162 for examples of how the author perceives and/or responds to his growing understanding of Jeshua's life and teaching.