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In the alternative-history novel, The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007), American author Michael Chabon imagines that during World War II, Jewish refugees were settled in Sitka, Alaska and that the State of Israel was destroyed in 1948. As a result, Sitka—now a thriving, Yiddish-speaking metropolitan area—is the center of the Jewish Diaspora.
May 1, 2007 · The writing here is silky, if occasionally overwrought. Still, the deft touches—a neighborhood fundraiser for a Little Free Library, a Twilight character as erotic touchstone—delight. The class calibrations are divine even as the utter apolitical whiteness of the Sorenson world becomes hard to fathom.
May 1, 2007 · Hardcover – Deckle Edge, May 1, 2007. by Michael Chabon (Author) 4.1 2,625 ratings. See all formats and editions. For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling ...
Mar 3, 2008 · A novel of colossal ambition and heart, The Yiddish Policemen’s Unio n interweaves a homage to the stylish menace of 1940s film noir with a bittersweet fable of identity, home and faith. ‘A brilliantly written fantasy’ – The Guardian. Michael Chabon has long been a favourite of Waterstones’ with his tour-de-force novel The Amazing ...
At once a gripping whodunit, a love story, and an exploration of the mysteries of exile and redemption, The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a novel only Michael Chabon could have written. ©2007 Michael Chabon (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers
Apr 29, 2008 · Mr. Chabon’s latest novel, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, builds upon the achievement of Kavalier & Clay, creating a completely fictional world that is as persuasively detailed as his re-creation of 1940s New York in that earlier book, even as it gives the reader a gripping murder mystery and one of the most appealing detective heroes to ...
The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Michael Chabon, . . HarperCollins, $26.95 (432pp) ISBN 978-0-00-714982-7. [Signature] Reviewed by Jess Walter. They are the "frozen Chosen," two million people ...
