Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his fellow residents managing to get themselves murdered.
An edition of The Yiddish Policemen's Union
(2006)
Il sindacato dei poliziotti yiddish
by Michael Chabon
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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.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union won a number of science fiction awards: the Nebula Award for Best Novel, the Locus Award for Best SF Novel, the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History for Best Novel. It was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel and the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel.
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Alaska, Sitka, Hotel Zamenhof, Israel, Palestine, Jerusalem, Germany, Soviet Union, Berlin, Third Russian Republic, Manchuria, Dome of the RockTimes
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El sindicato de policía Yiddish
2012-06, Debolsillo
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- Segunda edición en Debolsillo
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Associacao Judaica de policia
2009, Companhia das Letras
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel
2008, Harper Perennial
Trade Paperback
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- First Harper Perennial Edition (8)
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
2008, W F Howes
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel
2007, HarperCollins Publishers
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in English
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
2007, Fourth Estate
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
2007, HarperCollins Publishers
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Originaltitel: The Yiddish policemen's union.
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