The Dybbuk: A Version

by Barbara Rogasky

Other authorsLeonard Everett Fisher (Illustrator)
Hardcover, 2005

Status

Available

Call number

J 398.2 ROG

Publication

Holiday House (2005), Edition: 1, Hardcover, 64 pages

Description

In this retelling of a Jewish legend, a girl is possessed by the spirit of the man she was destined to, but did not, marry.

Barcode

1909

Language

User reviews

LibraryThing member raizel
A retelling of the play by S. Ansky, which I started; reading a play is not the best way to appreciate it. I assume that this book is the bare bones of the story. Two people are meant to be together because their fathers promised them to each other before they were born. But one father dies, the
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other forgets and then chooses not to remember and it all cannot end well, even with a rabbi holy enough to remove a dybbuk.
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ISBN

082341616X / 9780823416165
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