----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky at verizon.net> To: "LBO-Talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:24 AM Subject: [lbo-talk] The Yiddish Policeman's Union
> Anybody read this? I just finished. Hugely entertaining.
> It's Borscht-belt comic dialog among European Jews who
> are resettled to Alaska (the "frozen chosen"), which was an
> actual proposal by Harold Ickes. In this alternate history,
> there is no holocaust. It's a detective story. The
> gangsters are Hassidem. A bit:
>
> "Meyer Landsman is the most decorated shammes
> (detective -- mbs) in the District of Sitka, the man who
> solved the murder of the beautiful Froma Lefkowitz
> by her furrier husband, and caught Podolsky the
> Hospital Killer. His testimony sent Hyman Tscharny
> to federal prison for life, the first and last time that
> criminal charges against a Verbover wiseguy have
> ever been made to stick. He has the memory of a
> convict, the balls of a fireman, and the eyesight of a
> housebreaker. When there is crime to fight, Landsman
> tears around Sitka like a man with a pant leg caught
> on a rocket. It's like there's a film score playing behind
> him, heavy on the castanets."
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