![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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