In Michael Chabon‘s novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, post-World War II Zionists establish a Jewish colony in Alaska. Most of us don’t realize it, but a tropical equivalent of this colony almost existed. The Freeland League–also known by its proper Yiddish title, Frayland-lige far Yidisher Teritoryalistisher Kolonizatsye–was an early 20th-century movement that tried to establish a Yiddish-speaking Jewish Socialist state. The Freelanders […]