Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policemen's Union

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Narrator: Peter Riegert

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'The Yiddish Policemen's Union' interweaves an homage to the stylish menace of 1940s noir with a bittersweet fable of

identity, home and faith. It is a novel of colossal ambition and heart from former Pulitzer prize winner Michael

Chabon.



What if, as Franklin Roosevelt proposed on the eve of World War II, a temporary Jewish settlement had been established

on the Alaska panhandle? Roosevelt's plan went nowhere, but Chabon runs the idea into the present, back-loading his tale

with a haunting history. Israel failed to get a foothold in the Middle East, and since the Sitka solution was only

temporary, Alaskan Jews are about to lose their cold homeland.



The book's timeless refrain is 'It's a strange time to be a Jew'. Into this world arrives Chabon's Chandler-ready hero,

Meyer Landsman, a drunken rogue cop who wakes in a flophouse to find that one of his neighbors has been murdered. With

his half-Tlingit, half-Jewish partner and his sexy-tough boss, who also happens to be his ex-wife, Landsman investigates

a fascinating underworld of Orthodox black-hat gangs and crime-lord rabbis.