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The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a 2007 novel by American author Michael Chabon. 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 ...
May 1, 2007 · Michael Chabon. 3.71. 77,184 ratings7,752 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.
Apr 29, 2008 · The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a 2007 ‘Noir’ detective story set in an alternative history of post WW2 to present Sitka Alaska. The mystery opens with alcoholic Sitka police department homicide detective, Meyer Landsman, examining the murder of a man in the hotel where Landsman lives.
May 13, 2007 · The fanciful Sitka of “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” plays the delicate, infinitely complex game of fiction fairly: this place is so vividly imagined you practically need a parka and a ...
Jan 24, 2012 · The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a 2007 ‘Noir’ detective story set in an alternative history of post WW2 to present Sitka Alaska. The mystery opens with alcoholic Sitka police department homicide detective, Meyer Landsman, examining the murder of a man in the hotel where Landsman lives.
Complete summary of Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Yiddish Policemen's Union.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Michael Chabon. Fourth Estate, 2007 - Fiction - 414 pages. The brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning 'The...
