The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

Michael Chabon’s story of a schmuck of a policeman trying to solve the murder of the latest Messiah is brilliant on any number of levels.  First off, the story is set in Sitka, Alaska-where a few million Jews escaped the European Holocaust where about 2 million Jews where killed by the Nazis.  Over the years they have come to think of the place as their own, but now, America wants the land back and wants to kick the Jews out. We are told the details of the past fifty years or so as through the eyes and mouth of Meyer…

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