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Title: Doesn't add up to much in the end
Review: Chekhov said that if there's a gun in the first act, somebody had better use it later on. Chabon violates this principle completely. While the Yiddish Policemen's Union is imaginative and literate, it also completely fails to follow through on its provocative premise that in nine weeks potentially the entire Jewish population of Alaska is going to be expelled. More worth reading for the atmosphere than the story.
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