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Set in an alternate america where jews have taken refuge in an alaskan district after the collapse of israel in 1948, the yiddish policemens union is a noir which follows detective meyer landsman. I picked up a copy of the yiddish policemens union by michael chabon purely out of curiosity. Chabon writes with great intelligence and creativity, page by page, paragraph by paragraph, even sentence by sentence. Michael chabon the yiddish policemens union book the. They are known as the frozen chosen the jews whose parents settled in. By any measure, the yiddish policemens union is a significant work by one of americas. The novel is a detective story set in an alternative history version of the present day, based on the premise that during world war ii, a temporary settlement for jewish refugees was established in sitka, alaska, in 1941, and that the fledgling state of israel was destroyed in 1948. Chabon s setting is sitka, an imagined alljewish territory in alaska to. The film s writer joel coen last wrote the ballad of buster scruggs and suburbicon. Bookslut the yiddish policemens union by michael chabon. Chabons yiddish policemen headed for big screen reuters. The yiddish policemen s union is a 2007 novel by american author michael chabon.
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The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 414 pages and is available in hardcover format. The main characters of this fiction, mystery story are meyer landsman, berko shemets. Chabon has called it a homage to raymond chandler, dashiell hammett, ross macdonald and isaac babel. In the novels alternate history, israel was a failed experiment in 1948 and never became a nation.
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