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Re: Jerusalem on the Jukebox: Chabon’s Yiddish Noir

web directory — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:02:54 -0000

Producer Scott Rudin purchased the film rights to The Yiddish Policemen's Union in 2002, based on a one-and-a-half page proposal.

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Re: Jerusalem on the Jukebox: Chabon’s Yiddish Noir

Kathleen Maher — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:34:53 -0000

A big Chabon fan, I had planned to read this book when it was available from the library. Or buy it used. Your review (and I'd already read a few) has convinced me I need to read it: now. Your quotes were spectacular in every sense of the word.

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Howard Chaykin — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:20:46 -0000

I finished the book last night, and thought it was wonderful--as a novel, and as, you should please pardon the expression, a perversely modern work of Yiddishkeit.

I'm thoroughly delighted that Chabon references Jerome Charyn for his "The Hands of Esau," the fellowship of Jewish police officers from his Isaac Seidel novels.

Charyn is a terrific writer, an unfortunately neglected novelist long deserving of renewed attention--a man who wrestled the genre of police procedurals and crime fiction to the ground thirty years ago to astonishing and frequently surreal effect.

Re: Jerusalem on the Jukebox: Chabon’s Yiddish Noir

Chuck Tryon — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:22:44 -0000

Nice review, Tom. I read "Yiddish" when I was doing some traveling a few months ago and very much enjoyed it. Like you, I appreciated Chabon's ability to tweak genre fiction, and thought that the alternate history plot device worked quite well.