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* AntiHero: Landsman, big time. Being a classical anti-hero, not a [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] one: a normal person, fundamentally good, but hardly heroic and with numerous flaws.
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* AntiHero: Landsman, big time. Being a classical anti-hero, not a [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks [[MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] one: a normal person, fundamentally good, but hardly heroic and with numerous flaws.
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* DropTheHammer: Berko's warhammer, a homemade replica of a tribal Tlingit weapon.
--> ''"He carries in his right hand the uncanniest hammer any Jew or gentile is ever likely to see. It's a replica of the one that Chief Katlian is reported to have swung during the Russian-Tlingit war of 1804, which the Russians lost... The head is a thirty-five-pound block of [[ThunderboltIron meteorite iron]]..."''
--> ''"He carries in his right hand the uncanniest hammer any Jew or gentile is ever likely to see. It's a replica of the one that Chief Katlian is reported to have swung during the Russian-Tlingit war of 1804, which the Russians lost... The head is a thirty-five-pound block of [[ThunderboltIron meteorite iron]]..."''
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* HeroesWantRedHeads: Bina Gelbfish is a redhead, and Landsman was attracted to her for this, even following their divorce.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: The tomboyish Naomi Landsman is often mistaken for a butch lesbian, but claims that she's lesbian "in every way but sexual preference."
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* AmbiguouslyGay: GenderInverted. The tomboyish Naomi Landsman is often mistaken for a butch lesbian, but claims that she's lesbian "in every way but sexual preference."
* CampStraight: GenderInverted with the tomboyish Naomi Landsman, who could be called "Butch Straight." She is often mistaken for a butch lesbian, but claims that she's lesbian "in every way but sexual preference."
* CampStraight: GenderInverted with the tomboyish Naomi Landsman, who could be called "Butch Straight." She is often mistaken for a butch lesbian, but claims that she's lesbian "in every way but sexual preference."
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%%* TheChessmaster: Itzik Zimbalist and Hertz Shemets (literally and figuratively).
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* ChessMotifs: The opening murder takes place with an unfinished chess board next to the victim's body. Analyzing the board state allows Landsman to discover that [[spoiler: Herts Shemets]] murdered Mendel.
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* CrapsackWorld: Maybe not for everyone, but for Jews specifically, a lot has gone wrong. Israel lost the 1948 war, resulting in Alaska becoming the Jewish homeland. However, after sixty years, the US government is forcing most of the Jewish population out, leaving them with nowhere to go. An overall air of despair hangs over most of the Jewish characters. The bleakness of Alaska doesn't help, either.
* FantasticSlur: The Jewish residents of Alaska are often called "Yids" by opponents of the resettlement plan. It's sometimes an AppropriatedAppellation, too. Sitka also sometimes is called "Jewlaska."
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%%* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: [[spoiler: Naomi Landsman]].
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* NobleBigotWithABadge: Willie Dick, though he claims to hate everyone equally.
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* NobleBigotWithABadge: Willie Dick, though Dick is a Tlingit cop with anti-Semitic views, but he claims to hate everyone equally.
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* WorldHalfEmpty: So it feels to the Jews in the story.
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Specifying that Totally Not A Criminal Front is for poorly-veiled fronts.
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* TotallyNotACriminalFront: The Verbover crime syndicate is also a Jewish religious sect with its own buildings and places of worship.
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* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: The Verbover crime syndicate is also a Jewish religious sect with its own buildings and places of worship.
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* TotallyNotACriminalFront: The Verbover crime syndicate is also a Jewish religious sect with its own buildings and places of worship.
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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:TabletopGame/{{Chess}} in general, to the extent that Caissa the goddess of chess is name-checked. Landsman's troubled relationship with the game comes up frequently, and he finally solves the central mystery when he thinks critically about the position of the pieces on the chessboard at the crime scene.]]
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* TabletopGame/{{Chess}} in general, to the extent that Caissa the goddess of chess is name-checked.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler: Mendal Shpilman]] may indeed be the coming of the Messiah, born with wondrous abilities to lead the Jewish people back to their promised land and bring in the new era. Or he may simply be a very charismatic and insightful individual about whom has arisen a lot of coincidences and exaggerated stories by very desperate and very religious people eager to believe in any sign of salvation.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler: Mendal Mendel Shpilman]] may indeed be the coming of the Messiah, born with wondrous abilities to lead the Jewish people back to their promised land and bring in the new era. Or he may simply be a very charismatic and insightful individual about whom has arisen a lot of coincidences and exaggerated stories by very desperate and very religious people eager to believe in any sign of salvation.
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* NukeEm: The dropping of an atomic bomb still ended World War II, although it was a year later and it fell on Berlin instead of Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
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* AcceptableReligiousTargets: Hassidic Judaism and Evangelical Christianity are both portrayed in a markedly negative light.
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** Journalist Dennis Brennan's spoken dialogue verges on overly florid PurpleProse in places, because he's an American journalist who's learned to speak Yiddish without learning to speak it very well.
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** Journalist Dennis Brennan's spoken dialogue verges on overly florid PurpleProse in places, because he's an American journalist who's learned to speak Yiddish without learning to speak it very well.in a way that makes him sound as if he had swollowed a dictionary but never actually heard two native speakers talk together.
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* MeaningfulName: So many. Landsman himself, as the central character in a novel obsessed with the question of the Jews having a land of their own. Melekh Gaystik, the former chess champion, has a name meaning 'intellectual king'. The American agent Mr. Cashdollar. And many, many more (most of them disguised by being in Yiddish).
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* MeaningfulName: So many. Landsman himself, as the central character in a novel obsessed with the question of the Jews having a land of their own. Melekh Gaystik, the former chess champion, has a name meaning 'intellectual king'. The American agent Mr. Cashdollar. And many, many more (most of them disguised by being in Yiddish).Yiddish, although there is also a Tlingit cop named Willie Dick, whose love-hate relationship with Landsmann and especially Berko indicates at least some of the other characters take this as a nomen omen).
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* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Berko has a Tlingit-Indian mother and Jewish father, and the fact that he identifies more with his Jewish heritage does not help things given the longstanding antipathy between Jews and the native inhabitants.
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* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Berko has a Tlingit-Indian mother and Jewish father, and the fact that he looks pure Tlingit but identifies more with his Jewish heritage (to the extent that he is never seen without his kippah on) does not help things given the longstanding antipathy between Jews and the native inhabitants.
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** President John F. Kennedy appears to have married Marilyn Monroe, whom the protagonist Meyer Landsmann remembers at the First Lady Marilyn Monroe Kennedy.
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* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: Although the characters are all supposed to be speaking Yiddish, there are a number of Yiddish and Hebrew words that are used as slang that appear untranslated, such as "sholem" for "gun." Ironically, the text sometimes states that Sitka residents use "[[ForeignSwearWord American" (i.e. English language) curse words]].
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* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: Although the characters are all supposed to be speaking Yiddish, there are a number of Yiddish and Hebrew words that are used as slang that appear untranslated, such as "sholem" for "gun." Ironically, the text sometimes states that Sitka residents use "[[ForeignSwearWord "[[ForeignCurseWord American" (i.e. English language) curse words]].
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* BeardOfEvil: [[spoiler: Aryeh Baronshteyn's long Orthodox beard with a fake SkunkStripe to give the impression he's OlderAndWiser than he is]]
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* BeardOfEvil: [[spoiler: Aryeh Baronshteyn's long Orthodox beard with a fake SkunkStripe skunk streak to give the impression he's OlderAndWiser than he is]]
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%%* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Flingler and Dr. Roboy