SuitabookThe Entertainer and the Dybbuk
Sid Fleischman
- Reading
- Consider reading together and pausing to distinguish the fantastical possession from the historical events in the author’s note; offer space to talk about the book’s depiction of persecution and loss.
- Themes
- Historical loss and revenge: Avrom, a Jewish boy killed during the Holocaust, possesses a young ventriloquist and uses his stage act in a scheme for revenge. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The story involves a child killed in the Holocaust, spirit possession and a revenge scheme; the author’s note also addresses the murder of Jewish children by the Nazis.