{"product":{"product_id":"0007149832","title":"The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.)","price":"8.87","image_url":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Q7GxMW0SL._SL500_.jpg","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0007149832"},"comments":[{"body":"With the Boers to the south, give it some time.\r\n\r\nBesides, I am kinda hoping that Israel gets to take some land in Alaska that they shall rename Sitka and allow us to dream of Jewish noir stories about working the beat as a Jewish cop as one of the Chosen Frozen of the great Israel Empire!\r\n\r\naka, this http://www.amazon.com/Yiddish-Policemens-Union-Novel-P-S/dp/0007149832/ref=sr_1_1?s=books\u0026amp;ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1424955262\u0026amp;sr=1-1\u0026amp;keywords=The+Yiddish+Policemen%27s+Union","subreddit_name":"civ","author":"Squato"},{"body":"*[The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon](http://www.amazon.com/The-Yiddish-Policemens-Union-Novel/dp/0007149832)*\r\n\r\nIt Won the Hugo and Nebula Award a few years ago\r\n\r\n\u0026gt;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. 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. And in the cheap hotel where Landsman has washed up, someone has just committed a murder—right under his nose. When he begins to investigate the killing of his neighbor, a former chess prodigy, word comes down from on high that the case is to be dropped immediately, and Landsman finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, evil, and salvation that are his heritage. At once a gripping whodunit, a love story, and an exploration of the mysteries of exile and redemption, The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a novel only Michael Chabon could have written.","subreddit_name":"SF_Book_Club","author":"k_2"},{"body":"It's [The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon](http://www.amazon.com/Yiddish-Policemens-Union-Novel-P-S/dp/0007149832/ref=sr_1_1?s=books\u0026amp;ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1447096141\u0026amp;sr=1-1\u0026amp;keywords=+The+Yiddish+Policeman%27s+Union), and we're discussing it on February 21st.\r\n\r\nI really enjoyed the book and finished it earlier today. It's not something I would have chosen for myself but I couldn't put it down. Can't wait to discuss it!","subreddit_name":"Judaism","author":"Limonene"},{"body":"People who want to exterminate Jews are scary. I agree. I also agree that the Israelis who won the 1948 war were courageous and smart. I dunno why the invasion force didn't win, but I resist the idea that they weren't smart and courageous...I dunno, I just figure it had to be something more complex than that.      \r\n\r\n\u0026gt;Consider what the Dome of the Rock is. It's a mosque built on top of a Jewish temple. That's what makes it \"holy\".      \r\n\r\nReally? I had no idea? I thought it was because they also think that cave thingy is holy?     \r\n\r\n\u0026gt;I have not read the book you mentioned.      \r\n\r\nOK. I don't want to be overly dramatic or anything but you need to read it.     \r\n\r\n\u0026gt;The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a 2007 novel by American author Michael Chabon. The novel is a detective story set in an alternative history version of the present day, based on the premise that during World War II, a temporary settlement for Jewish refugees was established in Sitka, Alaska, in 1941, and that the fledgling State of Israel was destroyed in 1948. The novel is set in Sitka, which it depicts as a large, Yiddish-speaking metropolis.     \r\n\r\n[Here you go.](http://smile.amazon.com/Yiddish-Policemens-Union-Novel-P-S/dp/0007149832/ref=sr_1_1?s=books\u0026amp;ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1423424661\u0026amp;sr=1-1\u0026amp;keywords=yiddish+policemen%27s+union) The above synopsis is from the wikipedia page though.","subreddit_name":"worldnews","author":"--shera--"},{"body":"A good book supposing this is [Michael Chabon's THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION](http://www.amazon.com/Yiddish-Policemens-Union-Novel-P-S/dp/0007149832/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1461711889\u0026amp;sr=8-1\u0026amp;keywords=the+yiddish+detective).","subreddit_name":"worldnews","author":"paxanimus"},{"body":"There's a novel called [The Yiddish Policemen's Union](http://www.amazon.com/Yiddish-Policemens-Union-Novel-P-S/dp/0007149832/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;s=books\u0026amp;qid=1263419980\u0026amp;sr=1-1), so I'm guessing B.","subreddit_name":"AskReddit","author":"[deleted]"},{"body":"[Michael Chabon?](http://www.amazon.com/Yiddish-Policemens-Union-Novel-P-S/dp/0007149832/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;s=books\u0026amp;qid=1280508768\u0026amp;sr=8-1)\r\n\r\n*edit: link to Amazon. Buy this book, people.","subreddit_name":"AskReddit","author":"JoeyJoeJoeJrShabadoo"},{"body":"I'd recommend [The Yiddish Policemen's Union](https://www.amazon.com/Yiddish-Policemens-Union-Novel-P-S/dp/0007149832) by Michael Chabon. It's not a distant future sci-fi, it's more alternate history version of modern day, but enough of a difference that things feel unique. ","subreddit_name":"printSF","author":"Sheol"},{"body":"[Amazon link](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0007149832?tag=miscellanea-20\u0026amp;camp=213381\u0026amp;creative=390973\u0026amp;linkCode=as4\u0026amp;creativeASIN=0007149832\u0026amp;adid=1P07VK57KEQDFPPB0JPR\u0026amp;)","subreddit_name":"books","author":"CaptainScience"}]}