Jewish cops union

The plot of the novel develops in an alternative version of modern history. The premise is that, unlike real history, the US voted to implement the 1940 Slatter Project , which recommended the provision of land in Alaska to temporarily settle European Jewish refugees who were harassed by the Nazis during the Second World War II. The moment of the discrepancy with the real story is the death of the American congressman Anthony Diamond as a result of a traffic accident invented by the author; Diamond was one of the congressmen responsible for preventing voting on the report, which was the creation of a temporary independent Jewish settlement on the coast of Alaska. As a result of this, only 2 million Jews die in the Holocaust, and not about six million people, as in reality.

Sitka becomes the capital of increasing Jewish autonomy . One of the attractions of the city and a source of pride for its inhabitants is the Safety Pin, a tall building erected in 1977 for the World Exhibition held in Sitka. The lands on the other side of the border are inhabited by the native inhabitants of Alaska, the Tlingits , therefore, the narrative contains indications of friction, mixed and cross-cultural ties between Jews and Tlingits; one of the main characters of the novel, Berko Shemets, half Jewish, half tlingit. However, Sitka’s independence was only granted for sixty years, and the romance begins at the end of this period, and since the Christian President of the United States promises to return Sitka to the United States, the Jews have to look for another territory to live in.

In the novel, the State of Israel was created in 1948, but destroyed after three months of alternative development of the events of the Arab-Israeli conflict . After the victory, Palestine becomes a mosaic of rival religious and secular nationalist groups, this leads the state into constant internecine conflicts; Jerusalem “is buried in slogans painted on the walls and blood spilled on the street, pillars and poles adorn severed heads” ^[3] . The US president believes in a “divine sanction” applied to neo- Zionism ; the Jewish movement is seeking another return to Israel.

Shaybon describes the rest of world history only elliptically, but hints at huge changes. Germany defeats the Soviet Union by 1942 and World War II continues until 1946 , when Berlin is destroyed by using nuclear weapons. The author refers to the "Free Polish State", created in 1950, and describes the veterans of the long "Cuban war" of the 1960s. President John F. Kennedy was not killed, but engaged to Marilyn Monroe ; Orson Welles managed to make his film Heart of Darkness. In describing the modern world, Michael Sheibon refers to the “Third Russian Republic” and to the creation of an independent Manchuria , which even has its own space programs.