The Entertainer and the Dybbuk
About this book
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. . . .
Reader Profile
3.6/5 · 574 readers · 192 pages · ≈ 3 h 33 m · Light
How long does it take to read The Entertainer and the Dybbuk?
About ≈ 3 h 33 m — 192 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is The Entertainer and the Dybbuk?
192 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is The Entertainer and the Dybbuk?
It sits on the Ghost Stories, Historical Fiction, Fiction shelves.
Is The Entertainer and the Dybbuk in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote The Entertainer and the Dybbuk?
Sid Fleischman.