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Fleischman tells his story using very few descriptive paragraphs instead the reader gets page after page of rapid-fire dialogue. I had some problems getting into this one. he's on the lookout for his own murderer. Soon the show is a hit, but the dybbuk has a secret agenda. The kid may have been the victim of Nazis, but the he managed to keep his sense of humor even after death, and his jokes are way funnier than Freddie's. The Great Freddie, a so-so ventriloquist, is struggling with his act, when he finds himself possessed by a dybbuk who is the ghost of a twelve-year-old boy. Rec­om­mend­ed for rea‘ders age 9 – 14."Nazis! No one wants to think about the war anymore. Fleischman’s coura­geous take on the Holo­caust is full of con­crete details that invoke heart and humor.

This short book gives us sat­is­fy­ing revenge with­out vio­lence. The sur­pris­ing end­ing is dar­ing and mem­o­rable.

Avram’s bar mitz­vah, with Fred­die as his stand in, is remark­ably touching. He wants love, and the dyb­buk inter­feres. Fred­die wants fame, and the dyb­buk can help him get it. Fleis­chman uses humor to break up the ten­sion stem­ming from the dybbuk’s seri­ous mis­sion. Despite its seri­ous set­ting and momen­tum, Fred­die and the dyb­buk fight and joke like broth­ers. He will use the stage to hunt down his own murderer.īut the nov­el is not dour. At the height of Freddie’s rise to fame, Avram’s moti­va­tion is clear. The dyb­buk, now in the form of a ventriloquist’s dum­my, makes the read­er cheer and laugh. When Avram pos­sess­es the body of the Great Fred­die, Fred­die real­izes how he can use that to his advan­tage and becomes famous as the most gift­ed ven­tril­o­quist in Europe. He wants revenge against the Nazi who killed him and his sis­ter, along with numer­ous oth­er chil­dren. Avram Amos, the dyb­buk, was a 12-year-old boy killed in the Holo­caust.

But as the sto­ry pro­gress­es, it becomes clear that both of them can help each oth­er. With tsuris.” At first, Fred­die, who isn’t even Jew­ish, wants to get rid of the dyb­buk. One night, the Great Fred­die, a so-so Amer­i­can ven­tril­o­quist scrap­ing out a liv­ing in post-war Europe, is pos­sessed by a dyb­buk - ​ “A spir­it.