The Yiddish Policemen’s UnionThe brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Wonder Boys. What if, as Franklin Roosevelt once proposed, Alaskaand not Israelhad become the homeland for the Jews after the Second World War? In Michael Chabons Yiddish speaking Alyeska, Orthodox gangs in side curls and knee breeches roam the streets of Sitka, where Detective Meyer Landsman discovers the corpse of a heroin addled chess prodigy in