The Yiddish Policemen's Union (1)
"Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his fellow residents managing to get themselves murdered."
The hotel of course is named after L.L. Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto, whose 153rd birthday is coming on December 15. So in honor of Zamenhof's birthday, I begin reading this alternate history novel. Is alternate history good for the Jews?
"Landsman puts his hand on Tenenboym’s shoulder, and they go down to take stock of the deceased, squeezing into the Zamenhof’s lone elevator, or ELEVATORO, as a small brass plate over the door would have it. When the hotel was built 50 years ago, all of its directional signs, labels, notices, and warnings were printed on brass plates in Esperanto. Most of them are long gone, victims of neglect, vandalism, or the fire code." [p. 3]
Omaĝe al la venonta naskiĝtago de Zamenhof, mi komencas legi ĉi tiun ukronian romanon (La Jida Policana Sindikato/Unio), en kiu situas Hotelo Zamenhof.
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Here's some sad trivia.
It was quite ironic that Zamenhof Street in Warsaw was the street that the Jews from the Warsaw ghetto were forced to go down on their final way to Treblinka extermination camp.
Here's some sad trivia. On their last march to Treblinka extermination camp, the Jews from the Warsaw ghetto were actually forced to march down Zamenhof Street in Warsaw.
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