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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 entra...more

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Published August 21st 2007 by Greenwillow Books

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Mar 26, 2009 84-The_enlightment_of_Doctor_Grace_part5_Jesus added it

The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman is about Freddie, a man who get’s possessed by a Dybbuk. A Dybbuk is a Jewish spirit who won't go away until it has fulfilled what it needs to fulfill. So anyway, the ventriloquist is horrible. He moves his lips when he does the puppet's voice and everyone can see him do it. Then one day after a show a ghost shows up in his bedroom. The ghost is 12, because he was killed a few weeks before his Bar Mitzvah. When the ghost was alive, Freddie had pro...more The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman is about Freddie, a man who get’s possessed by a Dybbuk. A Dybbuk is a Jewish spirit who won't go away until it has fulfilled what it needs to fulfill. So anyway, the ventriloquist is horrible. He moves his lips when he does the puppet's voice and everyone can see him do it. Then one day after a show a ghost shows up in his bedroom. The ghost is 12, because he was killed a few weeks before his Bar Mitzvah. When the ghost was alive, Freddie had promised him he would come back for him after the war, because he had been a soldier in the allies. He reveals his name is Avrom Amos, and he needs a favour. For a while he agreed to be the puppet voice in the act to repay him. But soon he starts telling his story during the acts. After making Freddie pretty famous, he asks for the favours. First he wanted a Bar Mitzvah. Since he is a ghost, Freddie must stand in for him. Word gets around Freddie is Jewish, even though he is not. His date he had was ruined by Avrom, who said the girl was really an old Nazi soldier. Freddie is mad but an old friend shows up and they start dating. Avrom says he wants revenge against the guy who killed him. He said the Nazis put poison on his little sister’s lips and made her drink poison. She died screaming. Then they found him and put six bullet holes through him. Freddie went back to America, and on the way tells his girlfriend about Avrom. She is upset and says to get rid of him. He says he will as soon as he helps him. The guy who killed him, it turns out, put a tattoo on his arm and pretended to be a Jew to get pity. He sold rare stamps and had come to America. When they found him he was on trial for murder. A fifteen year old boy was discovered dead with poison on his lips in his backyard. He lies and it seems like he might get away. But Avrom speaks through him and forces him to tell the truth. Freddie realizes Avrom will get his revenge by driving the killer crazy for the rest of his life.
The moral of this story is that your ghosts, or Dybbuk, will come back to haunt you. Even though this story is fiction, the poison method was real. Nazis would go and kill children, even babies for fun. They used poison because they thought it a waste to use bullets on "Jewkids". Very well written and really sad. Over one and a half million children were killed, and this book is dedicated to them.
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Oct 29, 2012 Michael Brown rated it 5 of 5 stars

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“The Entertainer and the Dybbuk” Book Review

Once when i was little, i thought that i could become a ventriloquist. I used a teddy bear to act out different voices to my brother Darren. One day he told me that my mouth moved too much when i spoke through the bear. this is a problem that many beginning ventriloquists deal with, much like the great Freddie in the story “The Entertainer and the Dybbuk”.
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10-26-12
“The Entertainer and the Dybbuk” Book Review

Once when i was little, i thought that i could become a ventriloquist. I used a teddy bear to act out different voices to my brother Darren. One day he told me that my mouth moved too much when i spoke through the bear. this is a problem that many beginning ventriloquists deal with, much like the great Freddie in the story “The Entertainer and the Dybbuk”.
It's not your everyday expectation to come into contact with a dybbuk (Jewish spirit). It is not something that the Great Freddie was expecting either. Freddie, a ventriloquist, is a performer who doesn't have a perfect act as one might say. It was only until he met the spirit of Avrom Amos. The setting of this book takes place during the Holocaust in the 1930's during WW2 in Germany. This dybbuk was able to help Freddie with his act by possessing his puppet allowing him to speak through it. By letting him do this, Freddie quickly became famous throughout Germany for his act. Freddie booked many gigs at many different clubs in Germany on any given day despite his dybbuks religion. People became suspicious after noticing that Freddie would not perform on Jewish holidays.
The main character Freddie is blind to the future of his career, a great performer, and ignorant. My opinion towards the characters actions of Freddie is mixed emotions. On one hand i like his performances but on the other hand, i do not like how the dybbuk takes full control over Freddie. I think that Freddie’s motivation is his performances. They show how Freddie is a rising star and how he has to be responsible for the dybbuk. They also show how Freddie gains responsibility to have the secret of a dybbuk.
Some scenes where Freddie is acting, it’s as if the dybbuk has full control of Freddie's performance to make it either good or bad for the audience. This makes the dybbuk seem as a larger person than Freddie because the dybbuk control what is said and done during the act and Freddie has no say in it. Also, the dybbuk tells Freddie to do nothing but sit in the chair and drink a glass of water when directed to do so.
This book is significant to my culture by showing how small things can overwhelm and take over larger people. From Freddie, you can learn to not knuckle under by always listening to what you should do. From the Dybbuk, you can learn that it is not always the best idea to be in control of someone. A possible theme of this story is that you should never let something overcome you no matter how small or large.
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Nov 17, 2011 Chris Murray rated it 3 of 5 stars

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(Children's Literature Review) Kathe Pinchuck (Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter, November/December 2007 (Vol. 27, No. 2))
The entertainer of the title is The Great Freddie, better known as Sergeant Freddie T. Birch, an ex-GI from Nebraska, who has remained in Europe after World War II and is now a second-rate ventriloquist. The dybbuk is Avrom Amos Poliakov, a young boy who was shot by the Nazis on August 2, 1944. He now seeks revenge for his death as well as for his sister Sulk...more

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Feb 21, 2011 Alex Baugh rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: world-war-2

I had a hard time getting into The Entertainer and the Dybbuk because I don’t like ventriloquists and their dummies. I have always found something creepy about them. But I pushed past my dislike and I am so glad I did.

The Entertainer and the Dybbuk begins in 1948 in Vienna, Austria amid the ruins of World War II. Freddie the Great is an ex-American serviceman who has decided to remain in Europe and is working as a third rate entertainer in third rate dives. His problem is that he isn’t a very go...more I had a hard time getting into The Entertainer and the Dybbuk because I don’t like ventriloquists and their dummies. I have always found something creepy about them. But I pushed past my dislike and I am so glad I did.

The Entertainer and the Dybbuk begins in 1948 in Vienna, Austria amid the ruins of World War II. Freddie the Great is an ex-American serviceman who has decided to remain in Europe and is working as a third rate entertainer in third rate dives. His problem is that he isn’t a very good ventriloquist – his lips move. One night, he opens a closet door in his seedy hotel room and there, sitting on the floor, is a child with a faint glow about him. It is, in fact, the ghost of Avrom Amos Poliakov, a 12 year old boy killed by the Nazis. He explains to Freddie that he is a dybbuk, which is, according to Jewish folklore, the spirit of a dead person who takes possession of a living person in order to fulfill an earthy purpose. And Avrom has a very important earthly mission and Freddie owes him a favor - Avrom had saved his life during the war.

Little by little Avrom makes his presence known in Freddie’s act speaking as though he were the dummy and pretty soon Freddie has achieved some measure of success. Freddie no longer moves his lips, and can even drink a bottle of Perrier while the dummy speaks. The audience loves it. At first, Avrom is willing to go along with Freddie’s usual routine, but he soon begins to throw in facts from his life under the Nazis. And the audience continues to love the act. Freddie finally achieves real stardom in Paris, but now Avrom decides he can’t work on the Sabbath or Shabbes, so Friday and Saturday afternoon performances are cancelled. Yet they remain a success, so much so that when a reporter interviews Freddie, intrigued by his claim that his dummy is a dybbuk, Avrom willingly tells her his story.

Avrom and his younger sister Sulka had managed to elude the Nazis in Ukrainian for two years, but on August 22, 1944 the Nazis rounded up all the Jewish children for deportation. Avrom and Sulka escaped, but were hunted down by the SS. First they killed Sulka, and after a chase, Avrom was shot 6 times by SS Colonel Gerhard Junker-Strupp. The interviewer is amused, but doesn’t believe the story.

Avrom next tells Freddie that he had been killed two weeks before his Bar Mitzvah and he wants Freddie to find a Rabbi to complete it. Freddie figures that once he is Bar Mitzvahed he would be gone, but discovers that the dybbuk’s real purpose is to exact vengeance on Junker-Strupp now that Avrom is a man under Jewish law. And Avrom was not going to be stopped. It had taken him two years to track the Nazi down, and he had discovered the Junker-Strupp was in hiding as a Jewish Holocaust survivor, complete with a tattooed number on his arm. Given the zeal with which Avrom hunted his killer, the ending of this novel is not to be missed. And it is better than you might expect.

The Entertainer and the Dybbuk is a short but powerful book. It was Fleischman’s intention to honor the 1.5 million children killed during the Holocaust with this novel because “History is easy to forget. Does it matter in our contemporary lives if we toss aside what happened so long ago? If we forget – poof – history vanishes. The Holocaust vanishes. If we don’t know where we have been, how wise will we be in the future?” (pg 179)
Avrom’s story is delivered in pure Shtick or what Fleischman calls “the tough Jewish sense of humor” in his Author’s Note at of the book. (pg 179) Don’t be fool by that. Even though there is much satirical humor and it looks like an easy book, Avrom’s story is heartbreakingly sad. He is a character that has stayed with me since I finished reading the book in much that same way he stayed with Freddie – hauntingly so. But this is an excellent novel and I would highly recommend it.

This book won the 2008 Sydney Taylor Book Award for older readers.

This book is recommended for readers aged 11-14.
This book was purchased for my personal library.

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May 18, 2010 Logan Braden rated it 4 of 5 stars

The story is set just after the end of World War II. Freddie is an American soldier who has remained in Europe after the war. He is a ventriloquist that performs in different clubs. Freddie is not particularly talented and audiences complain that they can see his lips move. After returning home from one of the clubs, Freddie finds the ghost of a young boy in his closet, or a dybbuk (which is a Jewish ghost or spirit).

The ghost is a twelve-year-old boy that was killed by the Nazis during the war...more

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Feb 02, 2010 Lindsay Waddell rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: childrens-young-adult

I'm trying to muddle my way through all of the Georgia Children's Book Award nominees to read with my Reading Bowl Team. I've only read 4 out of the 18 books, whereas some of my students have read all of the books (fast, little readers they are!). We don't read them in any certain order - just as long as they get read. I'm certainly glad I chose this one to read next because I realize now that my students have no idea what they were reading about. We've been discussing each book, but the reading...more

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May 14, 2009 Christine Kloss rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: jessica-s-class

Best Books for Young Adults--Controversial topic: violence and revenge

This is a story about a very untalented ventriloquist who is living over in Europe after WWII. He becomes possessed by a dybbuk who was killed by Nazi soldiers along with his sister. The dybbuk begins to speak through The Great Freddie. Although Freddie is reluctant to this plan he goes along with it to continue working and he begins to have sympathy for the dybbuk and the tragedy that happened towards him and the other Jewish...more

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Oct 20, 2010 Newport Librarians rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: ms-kathy, ya-fiction

Sid Fleischman's story involves an ex-GI who stays on in post-war Europe trying to make it as a ventriloquist and a murdered Jewish boy named Avrom Amos Poliakov. Freddie, the ventriloquist, isn't making it with a lame act, bad jokes, and little ability to throw his voice until Avrom Amos inhabits his body and speaks through his dummy. The act gets better, the jokes get better, but Freddie's life gets terribly complicated by this dead Jewish boy, now a "dybbuk" or spirit, who wants a Bar Mitzvah...more

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Jul 31, 2010 Lindsey rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: jewish

SYDNEY TAYLOR WINNER (2008)

Format: Audio CD
Age level: Middle school
Protagonist: Fred T. Burch, and American, and Avram Amos, a Jewish Dybbuk

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This story revolves around two very different characters, Freddie and Avram. Freddie is a former American G.I. and a so-so ventriloquist. He has stayed in Europe following the war, trying to work as an entertainer. Avram Amos is a dybbuk, which is a Jewish spirit. He comes to Freddie because he needs help completing "unfinished business." Avram ends u...more

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Jul 28, 2010 Jim March rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: jewish

This book would be most appropriate for a middle school audience, 4th or 5th grade. The protagonist is a the ghost of a young Jewish boy, Avrom Amos Poliakov, who was killed by an SS officer during World War II. Avrom inhabits the body of an American ventriloquist named Fred T. Birch, better known as the Great Freddie. Avrom chooses Freddie to be his host because it turns out that after Fred, a American soldier in WWII, had his plane shot down, Avrom and some other Jewish children in hiding help...more

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May 05, 2010 PSFlynn added it

One night the Great Freddie is possessd by a ghost jewish boy seeking revenge for his race of jewish people.

Passage: In the gray, bombed-out city of Vienna, Austria, an American ventriloquist opened the closet door of his hotel room. Still in his tuxedo and overcoat, The Great Fredie intedned to put away the battered suitcase in which he carried his silent wooden dummy. But there on the floor sat a gaunt man with arms folded across his knees, waiting. After a second glance,The Great Freddie real...more

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Apr 17, 2009 Terry rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a quick read about a weighty topic. The book is physically smaller than many others, and there are relatively few words on a page compared to most other young adult novels. The author uses a dybbuk (or Jewish ghost) of a boy who was killed by a Nazi officer during World War II to talk about the Holocaust. This ghost befriends a struggling ventriloquist, enters his body, and helps the entertainer put on some great shows. But the dybbuk has a purpose and a plan ... I won't give more away,...more

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Jun 02, 2012 Joanne rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya

Interesting treatment of a horrific episode in history: the Holocaust genocide by Nazis during WWII. An American soldier who was captured by the Germans finds himself in Europe after the war is over, trying to make a living by working nightclubs and other venues with the puppets he practiced with during his incarceration. But he's getting interference from a "Dybbuk," the spirit of a Jewish boy who came in contact with him before either of them had been captured. The boy didn't survive, but he h...more

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May 05, 2009 Cat rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: top-teen-2009, young-adult

Okay this is the premise of the book:

1. A WWII soldier is doing his gig as a ventriloquist in the year of 1948. (BTW he carried his dummy around Europe in battle. WHAT?)

2. He is approached by a dybbuk, the spirit of a dead 12 year old jewish boy. The boy asks if he can possess the ventriloquist to finish some unfinished business. The ventriloquist says no but the dybbuk does anyway.

3. The dybbuk takes over the ventriloquist's act to find the man who killed him and other Jewish kids during the wa...more

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Sep 09, 2009 Karyn The Pirate rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: book-reviews-2009, juvenile-fic

Freddie T. Burch, better known as Fredde the Great, is a down-n-out ventriloquist working his way through Europe 3 years after the end of WWII. He is not a very good ventriloquist, his lips keep moving. Then he runs into a dybbuk, a Jewish spirit or ghost who's troubles keep him from moving on. This dybbuk is named Avrom Poliakov and he is a 12 year old boy killed by the Nazis before his bar mitzvah. And now Avrom wants something of Freddie. What Avrom wants just might be the last thing Freddie...more

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Nov 16, 2012 Leandro Ribeiro rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book uses true historical events and facts and merges it well with this unique story of a bad ventriloquist and his struggles. The author really thought of something that's one of a kind when he created this book; the story of an ex soldier ventriloquist that is haunted by the spirit of a Jewish child. The ventriloquist, named Freddie, eventually gains popularity due to his "skills" given by the ghost. Although he reaches fame thanks to the spirit he must then return the favor and commit to...more

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Nov 04, 2009 Shannon Hitchcock rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I enjoy reading authors who build a wonderful story with minimum words. Author Sid Fleischman has that uncanny ability to make every word count.

In this story, Avrom Amos was killed by the Nazis before his bar mitzvah. He becomes a Jewish ghost and decides to possess the body of a young ventriloquist named Freddie.

Sid Fleischman doesn't shy away from the horrors of the Holocaust, but he presents the facts in a unique and clever way...through the mouth of a ventiloquist's dummy.

THE ENTERTAINER AND...more

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Aug 13, 2009 Alicia rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: funny, historical-fiction, magical-realism, supernatural, war

In the sizable body of teen Holocaust fiction, this book stands out as one of the only attempts to be funny about it. In post-WWII Europe, an American ventriloquist with limited talent is visited by a dybbuk, the ghost of a Jewish boy killed in the Holocaust. Despite the man's protests, the dybbuk possesses him and his dummy, much improving the show and furthering the dybbuk's plan to exact revenge on the Nazi who killed him. A bizarre premise that mostly worked for me, thanks to Fleischman's ex...more

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Jun 07, 2009 Kelly rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult

In this brief story about a ventriloquist, Freddie, that becomes possessed by a dybbuk, a Jewish spirit with unfinished business. The dybbuk uses the ventriloquist act to seek revenge for his murder.

This fictitious account relating to the holocaust is a quick easy, lighter read. It also provides an interesting perspective on some of the traditions of Judaism. Many books about the holocaust leave a person feeling depressed and rightly so. I enjoyed this lighter approach to the topic, I just wish...more

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Jul 30, 2010 Carol Baldwin rated it 4 of 5 stars

Full Cast Audio does a nice job of providing voices for this humorous yet serious story of a post WWIII ex-GI turned ventriloquist. Freddie T. Birch is a ventriloquist without an act-- until he is possessed by a dybbuk, a Jewish ghost, with an agenda of his own. Even if you don’t listen to this as an audio book, the clever story will entertain and inform readers from ages 10 and up.
The author, Sid Fleischman, uses humor to tell the painful story of a 12-year-old Jewish boy, Avrom Amos, who was...more

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Apr 23, 2010 Julia rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: based-on-folksong-myth, holocaust, historical-fantasy, urban-fantasy

The Great Freddie isn’t; he’s a second string (or lower) American ventriloquist in 1948 touring Europe. When Avrom possesses his dummy, his act gets much better, and he gets some big bookings. Avrom was murdered when he was 12, so with Freddie’s help he becomes Bar Mitzvah. Then they find the Nazi who killed Avrom...

Ten to twelve year olds may be able to read this book, but older teenagers and adults who know more about the Holocaust may be a better audience.

I really enjoyed this little book.

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Jul 22, 2009 Mr. Z rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: a-classroom-library, historical-fiction-war, holocaust, sunshine-state-books

A 2009-2010 Sunshine State Book.

No matter how many times the horrors of the Holocaust are recounted, one can't help but feel disgust and disbelief at the fact that it happened at all. In this quick and easy-to-read story dedicated to the 1.5 million kids and babies killed at the hands of Hitler's murderers, a former German soldier who winds up becoming a ventriloquist after WWII winds first sees his right-hand puppet as a tool to entertain but eventually gets from it much more than he bargained...more

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Oct 10, 2009 Brenda rated it 5 of 5 stars

World War II is over and Freddie, a young ex-soldier, is trying to make his living as a ventriloquist. The only problem is that he isn't that good at throwing his voice without moving his lips. This situation is quickly solved when he suddenly finds himself possessed by a Dybbuk, a young jewish ghost named Avrom Amos who was killed by an SS officer during the war. Avrom wants revenge on those who killed him. He also wants people to remember the terrible fate that came to the millions of jewish c...more

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Jul 16, 2010 Sandra Stiles rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: historical-fiction, mystery, middle-grades

I first picked up this book because it had a ventriloquist dummy on the cover. I was not sure what a dybbuk was but learned that it was the equivalent of a Jewish Ghost. This is the story of a ventriloquist who is not very successful. That is until he returns to his room one night and finds someone waiting. He finds out the someone is a dybbuk. He wants something from the Ventriloquist. He needs to inhabit his body in exchange he will help him. Against the entertainer's wishes the dybbuk enters...more

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May 09, 2008 Krista rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: teen-fiction

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Fleischman makes his intentions of this novel clear with a handful of words in his dedication: for the million and a half…

The Entertainer and the Dybbuk is a unique piece of holocaust literature in that the narrative recalls a point of view often lost or ignored in history of this era, that of the millions of Jewish children who were victims of the Nazi genocide campaign against Jews across Europe. The fate and suffering of children are often overlooked during times of war, and during World War...more

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Mar 29, 2008 Daniel rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: childrens-books, young-adult, history

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Oct 10, 2007 RJ McGill rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: ages 9-14

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Like so many things in life the story contains mystery, beauty, enchantment and horror. Dybbuk is Hebrew for "cleaving to" -- and remains one of the most enduring beliefs in Jewish folklore. This is the basis for Sid Fleischman's new book which reveals age appropriate information about the harsh cruelty inflicted upon the Jews during the Holocaust in a highly entertaining and unique way.

When twelve year old Avrom Amos, a dybbuk takes up residence in the body of an American ventriloquist what e...more

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Dec 29, 2007 Nick rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Twilight Zone fans

This little book is a very quick read, and seemed like a good Twilight Zone episode.
The story takes place in 1948, and the central character is an ex-GI who stayed in Europe, hoping to become an entertainer there. He had been a performing ventriloquist before the war, but his original dummy had been destroyed, and he was out of practice. As a result, he was barely making a living as “The Great Freddie” with a second-rate act.
Then, one day, he encountered a dybbuk, the spirit of a Jewish child w...more

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Sep 20, 2009 Karen rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: 7th - 8th grade boys or girls who are interested in Holocaust fiction

Shelves: historical-fiction

Just after World War II, an American ventriloquist named Freddie is possessed by a dybbuk - a Jewish spirit. Turns out it's the spirit of a young boy who was murdered during the Holocaust, but only after he saved Freddie's life. Now, he needs Freddie's help to find and avenge his murderer. The story has humor and pathos, and despite it's short length it's is a powerful tale of gratitude, human connections, prejudice, revenge and the horrors of war. I found it very engrossing.

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May 11, 2009 Sherrie rated it 3 of 5 stars

With this book, I've read three of the 15 2009-2010 SSYRA books for 6th-8th grade. This was a quick read, if rather dark. An American ventriloquist is posssessed by the spirit of a dybbuk, a Jewish spirit. The spirit is a young boy killed by a Nazi soldier shortly before his 13th birthday. He is seeking to complete his Bar Mitzvah then seek revenge on his killer. This book would pair nicely with other Holocaust books, such as "Number the Stars" or "Good Night Maman".

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