(Fiction, 414 pp. 2007)
It’s bad enough that the Jewish mini-state established in Alaska for survivors of Hitler is about to revert to US control after sixty years. Now Yiddish-speaking cop Meyer Landsman has to solve a tragic murder that pits him against his ex-wife boss, an assortment of odd relatives, and a swarm of corrupt Hasidim with apocalyptic dreams.
- Discussion questions from Yiddish Book Center
- Discussion questions from HarperCollins
- Review by Jenny Diski, The Guardian, June 8, 2007
- Review by Danielle Granville, Oxonian Review, June 15, 2007
- Review by Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, May 1, 2007
- Review by Gavriel Rosenfeld, Jewish Daily Forward, April 20, 2007
- Review by Daniel Schifrin, Jewish Week, June 29, 2007
- Review by Mark Oppenheimer, Jewish Daily Forward, April 20, 2007
- Review by Ruth R. Wisse, Commentary, July/August 2007
- “The Imaginary Jew” by William Deresiewicz, The Nation, May 28,2007
- Todd Hasak-Lowy interviews Michael Chabon, Jbooks.com
- “Say it in Yiddish” by Michael Chabon
- “Holy Yiddishkeit, Batman” by Jeffrey Shandler, Jbooks.com
- Daniel Greene interviews Michael Chabon (7 min. audio and transcript) March 13, 2008
- Glossary
- “Sitka, Alaska” from Wikipedia
- “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” from Wikipedia
- Lecture (25 min.)
