The next issue of the Newfoundland Quarterly will be dedicated to What Ifs of Newfoundland and Labrador History. Before I start teasing some of the intriguing questions we're exploring, I wanted to recommend a novel that posits a unique and compelling What If of its own: Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union. (I keep wanting to call it
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball , but that, of course, is something completely different). And Chabon's novel has (maybe) an NL connection - I wonder, in his research, if he ever came across Frank Banikhin's 1936 proposal to allow skilled German Jewish workers into the Labrador interior?
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