The entertainer and the dybbuk

Description

One night The Great Freddie, a young ventriloquist, is possessed by a dybbuk.A what?A Jewish spirit. A scrappy demon who glows as if spray-painted by moonlight.The dybbuk is revealed to be the ghost of a twelve-year-old boy named Avrom Amos, a victim of the Nazis during World War II. In a plucky scheme to seek revenge, he commandeers The Great Freddie's stage act and entraps the entertainer in the postwar ashes of Germany. Behind the footlights, the dybbuk lights up the terrible fate of a million and a half Jewish children, including Avrom himself.What tricks does the dybbuk have up his ghostly sleeve? Prepare to be astonished. . . .

Description

A struggling American ventriloquist in post-World War II Europe is possessed by the mischievous spirit of a young Jewish boy killed in the Holocaust. Author's note details the murder of over one million children by the Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s.

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Genres

• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction

Other Editions

• The entertainer and the dybbukGreenwillow Books2007-01-01
• The Entertainer and the DybbukLibrary BindingGreenwillow2007-08-21
• The Entertainer and the DybbukGreenwillow2007-08-21
• The Entertainer and the DybbukHardcoverGreenwillow2007-08-21
• The Entertainer and the DybbukGreenwillow2007-08-21
• The entertainer and the dybbukGreenwillow Books2008-01-01