The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Author’s Note

I am grateful for the help of the following people, works, websites, institutions, and establishments:

The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hamp shire; Davia Nelson; Susie Tompkins Buell; Margaret Grade and the staff of Manka’s Inverness Lodge, In verness, California; Philip Pavel and the. staff of the Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, California; Bonnie Pietila and her fellow denizens of Springfield; Paul Hamburger, librarian for the judaica Collections, Uni versity of California; Ari Y. Kelman; Todd Hasak Lowy; Roman Skaskiw; the Alaska State Library, Juneau, Alaska; Dee Longebaugh, Observatory Books, Juneau, Alaska; Jake Bassett of the Oakland Police Department; Mary Evans; Sally Willcox, Matthew Snyder, and David Colden; Devin McIntyre; Kristina Larsen, Lisa Eglinton, and Carmen Dario; Elizabeth Gaffney, Kenneth Turan, Jonathan Lethern; Christo pher Potter; Jonathan Burnham; Michael McKenzie; Scott Rudin; Leonard Waldman, Robert Chabon, and Sharon Chabon; Sophie, Zeke, Ida-Rose, and Abraham Chabon, and their mother; The Messiah Texts, Raphael Patai; Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dic tionary, Uriel Weinreich; Our Gang, Jenna joselit; The Meaning of Yiddish, Benjamin Harshav; Blessings, Curses, Hopes and Fears: Psycho-Ostensive Expres sions in Yiddish, Benjamin Matisoff; English-Yiddish Dictionary, Alexander Harkavy; American Klezmei, Mark Slobin; Against Culture: Development, Poli tics, and Religion in Indian Alaska, Kirk Dom browski; Will the Time Ever Come? A Tlingit Source Book, Andrew Hope III and Thomas F. Thornton, eds.; The Chess Artist, ]. C. Hallman; The Plea sures of Chess, Assiac (Heinrich Fraenkel); Trea sury of Chess Lore, Fred Reinfeld, ed.; Mendele (http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~mendele/index.utf-8.htm); Chessville (www.chessville.corn); Eruvin in Modern Metropolitan Areas, Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer (http:// www.aishdas.orgjbaistefilajeruvpl.htm) ; Yiddish Dictionary Online (www.yiddishdictionaryonline. com); and Courtney Hodell, editor and redeemer of this novel.

The Hands of Esau brotherhood was founded by and appears here with the kind permission of its grand chairman and president for life, Jerome Charyn; the Zugzwang of Mendel Shpihnan was devised by Reb Vladimir Nabokov and is presented in his Speak, Memory.

This novel was written on Macintosh computers using Devonthink Pro and Nisus Writer Express.