The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Mystery / Chabon, Michael	4-week checkout	Due 04-30-2024
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Mystery / General / Chabon, Michael	4-week checkout	Due 03-24-2024

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 the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end.

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Somewhere Under Aurora submitted by josh warn on December 27, 2008, 9:44am Not many writers can sustain such a high level of creativity for so many pages. Chabon keeps up not just convolutions of plot, but witty dialogue and entertaining stylistic play with the conventions of Chandler era detective writing on the order of "like a hot kiss on the end of a wet fist." This cleverness is within a work of some thematic weight if only by allusion to possible alternate outcomes to the holocaust. Some of the humor may be more accessible to people acquainted with Jewish culture and Yiddish expressions, but there is a glossary and notes on the historical underpinning of Michael Chabon's imagined territory.

not quite K and C submitted by EJZ on July 23, 2018, 8:32pm After reading Kavalier and Clay, I thought I would check out some other Chabon novels. Yiddish Policemen's has many of the same turns and twists as K&C, and a "Surprise, he's gay!" moment that really adds nothing to the story. It's fun enough, but just not as cohesive or interesting.