Comments on: Jerusalem on the Jukebox: Chabon’s Yiddish Noir http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/06/27/w/ culture blogging for the good of the planet Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:54:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Kathleen Maher http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/06/27/w/#comment-6730 Kathleen Maher Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:34:53 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/06/27/w/#comment-6730 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. 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.

]]> By: Howard Chaykin http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/06/27/w/#comment-6678 Howard Chaykin Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:20:46 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/06/27/w/#comment-6678 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. 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.

]]> By: Chuck Tryon http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/06/27/w/#comment-6661 Chuck Tryon Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:22:44 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/06/27/w/#comment-6661 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. 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.

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