Still the same, I would heartily caution readers and readers parents. I gave this book five stars because I think Fleischman did about as good as one could do having chosen the literary destination he did. Like all other literature, when done right, I think it can be uniquely uplilfting and connecting experience.ĭone wrong, it's worse than being incorrect. Tried mightily he did but at the end of the day, I think Fleishman still ended up producing the written equivalent of Auschwitz: The Musical. Owing to the uneasy way the two genres relate, I felt a disconnect as author Fleischman tried to unify what was - I fear - non unifiable. On top of this deep tradition of sadness and loss that is the story of the Dybbuk, children's author Sid Fleischman had decided to posit a children's story. As one views this movie, one cannot suppress the realization that these actors - cut down by the scythe of Nazi Germany - were reduced to being merely screen images instead of the once living and breathing characters they'd been "before" (like all too many "dybbuks" that preceded them). It was made in Poland just before World War II and actually featured many actors who would go on to die in the Holocaust.
Amidst persecution and pogroms, Jews had their plates full with death and unfinished business.īy way of historical accident, one of the last films of Yiddish cinema was called The Dybbuk. Interestingly enough, the Patrick Swayze movie ghost should actually have been entitled Dybbuk because of its adherence to the tradition Dybbuk formula: guy has unfinished business, guy dies before he can complete it, guy inhabits the body of another to complete it, he completes it and finally is gone.īecause of its concern with death and unfinished business, the Dybbuk story was an all too common tale for Jews of the middle ages.the time when this story was first born and started to grow.
In myth, a dybbuk was the soul a deceased who's returned to the body of another so that he may fulfill his unfinished life business. A cousin to the Golem, the true story of the Dybbuk runs deep into the tragedy that all too often was Jewish history.
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