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Plot Summary. 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 ...
Plot summary The book opens with Meyer Landsman, an alcoholic homicide detective with the Sitka police department, investigating the murder of a man in the hotel where Landsman lives. Beside the corpse lies an open cardboard chess board with an unfinished game set up on it.
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Ryan Skardal. | Certified Educator. Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policeman’s Union is a noir detective novel that takes place in an alternative history setting. The novel’s protagonist,...
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. Harper Perennial, 2008. The novel is set in an alternate history in the year 2007. In 1948, all Jews in and around Jerusalem were violently expelled and forced to make settlements in other parts of the world. One of those settlements, Sitka, was established in Alaska.
May 1, 2007 · 3.71. 76,943 ratings7,726 reviews. 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 state of Israel.
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May 13, 2007 · By Terrence Rafferty. May 13, 2007. “Don’t get wistful on me,” says a sly old man in Michael Chabon’s sly new novel, his first big serious one since the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize ...
The premise of this alternate history novel, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, is that a proposal made by Roosevelt’s Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes in the late 1930’s became law. He had...
