The Yiddish Policemen's Union

The Yiddish Policemen's Union
First edition cover
AuthorMichael Chabon
Cover artistJacket design by Will Staehle
LanguageEnglish, some Yiddish
GenreScience fiction, alternative history, detective fiction
PublisherHarperCollins
Publication date
May 1, 2007
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages414 (first edition, hardcover)
AwardsHugo Award for Best Novel (2008), Nebula Award for Best Novel (2008), Sidewise Award for Alternate History (2007)
ISBN978-0-00-714982-7 (first edition, hardcover)
OCLC73140283
813/.54 22
LC ClassPS3553.H15 Y54 2007

The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a 2007 novel by American author Michael Chabon.[1] 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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