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ROBBIE KURLAND, Librarian BOOK REVIEW THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN’S UNION By Michael Chabon, Harper Collins, 2007 Michael Chabon, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, has once again written a winning novel. Completely Jewish in content, it is a detective story based on the premise that after World War II, the remaining European Jews were not welcome in Palestine and were forced to immigrate to Sitka, Alaska. This arrangement with the U.S. government lasts sixty years before the Jews are told their “safe haven” will revert to Alaska and they will have to leave. Chabon creates a real world, complete with a government bureaucracy and Jewish politics. Within this fictionalized world, Chabon writes a detective novel with a homicide detective, Meyer Landsman, who, throughout the novel, investigates the murder of a chess prodigy. The book is a wonderful whodunit, a love story, and a probing into the mysteries of exile and redemption. Chabon’s vivid imagination is unique and fascinating, and the book is well worth reading. Library hours: Tuesday 9:00 am – noonWednesday mornings prior to Rabbi Tuff’s adult education class Friday Night after Services Sunday 9:30 am – 11:30 am |
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