The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman

Jewish children were hunted down by Nazis in WW II (they were often Satisfying ending to a tale that mingles horror and humor. How the dybbuk manages to get revenge on his killer makes for a Posing as a Holocaust survivor who is currently on trial in the US for

Wants Freddie's help tracking down his murderer, a Nazi officer Avrom can't be seen, but since heĬan talk-and wisecrack-he helps The Great Freddie out with his act. Ghost of Avrom Amos, a boy who had helped hide Freddie from the Nazis,Īnd he figures Freddie owes him. Possessed by a dybbuk, a sort of Jewish spirit. Ventriloquist in Europe in 1948 is astonished when he finds himself

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The entertainer and the dybbuk.' The Free Library. Girls with ribbons in their hair, why not?' ” Fleischman inserts horrific factual details of Nazi brutality, and yet his message about bearing witness may be submerged beneath the sensational story line. Those lunatics, 'Soldiers of Germany, have some fun and go murder a million and a half Jewish kids? All ages! Babies, fine. Here is Avrom Amos giving Freddie a history lesson: “You didn't hear told his Nazi meshuggeners, The dybbuk's voice will shock some readers he speaks in embittered, Yiddish-inflected English that drives home his point. He wants to track down the infamous SS colonel who not only killed him but also tortured children, including his sister, and before long, the dybbuk co-opts Freddie's act and his interviews to spread the word about the SS colonel. But Avrom Amos has his own agenda, as Freddie knows. The dybbuk makes good on his promise, and Freddie's act becomes the toast of Paris. Avrom Amos is a dybbuk, a wandering soul or ghost, and, by demonstrating how he might speak for Freddie's wooden dummy, Avrom Amos convinces Freddie to let him lodge within Freddie. And then Avrom Amos Poliakov shows up-rather, takes over. The “Great Freddie” is a decorated GI, an orphan who has stayed in Europe and, by 1948, has found a toehold as a ventriloquist. ) draws attention to the especially cruel treatment of Jewish children during the Holocaust. Traveling into territory more commonly associated with Isaac Bashevis Singer, Newbery Medalist Fleischman ( The Whipping Boy

The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman