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Articles tagged "jewish culture"

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Chabon’s domain: ‘Yiddish Policemen’ a fine partner for ‘Kavalier’

by Matt Krupnick [Contra Costa Times (MCT)]

[30.May.07] :. What place does Yiddish have in the modern American novel? About the same as a Jew in Alaska, perhaps, but it didn’t stop Michael Chabon from trying it out. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist...

Books Review

The Yiddish Policemens Union by Michael Chabon

by Carlin Romano [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[17.May.07] :. Michael Chabon writes the best Saul Bellow novel since Saul Bellow died -- antic, droll, brainy, Yiddishy, secular, updated to present-day American -- but with differences that reflect literary times and their discrepant personalities.

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Books Review

The Yiddish Policemens Union by Michael Chabon

by Connie Ogle [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[11.May.07] :. Yiddish detective tracks a killer across Alaska in Michael Chabon's brilliantly conceived noir history.

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