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The Yiddish policemen's union

Chabon crafts a murder mystery based on the premise that a Jewish settlement was created in Alaska following World War II. In the small town of Sitka, Alyeska, Detective Meyer Landsman finds the body of a prominent town figure who has ties to organized crime. As Landsman digs deeper, he discovers that this is only the tip of the iceberg--and all signs point to a greater danger lurking in the shadows.

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  • "Chabon crafts a murder mystery based on the premise that a Jewish settlement was created in Alaska following World War II. In the small town of Sitka, Alyeska, Detective Meyer Landsman finds the body of a prominent town figure who has ties to organized crime. As Landsman digs deeper, he discovers that this is only the tip of the iceberg--and all signs point to a greater danger lurking in the shadows."@en
  • "A murder mystery set in the imaginary Jewish homeland that is Alaska."@en
  • "A murder mystery set in the imaginary Jewish homeland that is Alaska."
  • "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. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful, and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. For sixty years they have been left alone, neglected and half-forgotten in a backwater of history. Now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end: once again the tides of history threaten to sweep them up and carry them off into the unknown. But homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. His life is a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster. He and his half-Tlingit partner, Berko Shemets, can't catch a break in any of their outstanding cases. Landsman's new supervisor is the love of his life - and also his worst nightmare. And in the cheap hotel where he has washed up, someone has just committed a murder-right under Landsman's nose. Out of habit, obligation, and a mysterious sense that it somehow offers him a shot at redeeming himself, Landsman begins to investigate the killing of his neighbor, a former chess prodigy. But when word comes down from on high that the case is to be dropped immediately, Landsman soon finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, hopefulness, evil, and salvation that are his heritage - and with the unfinished business of his marriage to Bina Gelbfish, the one person who understands his darkest fears. -Dust jacket."
  • "In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addled chess prodigy."
  • "In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addled chess prodigy."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Compact discs"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Alternative histories (Fiction.)"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Alternative histories (Fiction)"@en
  • "Alternative histories (Fiction)"

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  • "The Yiddish policemen's union"@en
  • "The Yiddish policemen's union"
  • "The Yiddish policemen's union a novel"@en
  • "The Yiddish policemen's union a novel"
  • "The Yiddish Policemen's Union"
  • "The Yiddish policeman's union"
  • "The Yiddish policemen's union [a novel]"
  • "The Yiddish policemen's union [a novel]"@en
  • "The Yiddish Policemen's Union a novel"

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