Michael Chabon's essay "A Yiddish Pale Fire", which discusses his encounter with a Yiddish travel guidebook that eventually inspired "The Yiddish Policeman's Un

Michael Chabon's essay "A Yiddish Pale Fire", which discusses his encounter with a Yiddish travel guidebook that eventually inspired "The Yiddish Policeman's Union", is a great read too, if you can track it down. Looks like it's disappeared from the Web.