the entertainer and the dybbuk by sid fleischman

Sid Fleischman died of cancer at his home in Santa Monica on March 17, 2010, the day after his 90th birthday.

They are the only father and son pair to receive Newbery awards. Fleischman is adept in providing the historical background for the seventy-odd years of his life: the Great Depression, World War II, and developments in the publishing industry as he struggled. He was the father of the Newbery Medal-winning writer and poet Paul Fleischman. He wrote screenplays, including Blood Alley, the TV movie adaption of The Whipping Boy, Prince Brat and The Whipping Boy (credited as Max Brindle), and other films based on his novels.įleischman was married to Betty Taylor for 51 years until her death in 1993. In addition to writing children's books, Fleischman did work for the Children's Television Workshop, writing the Bloodhound Gang mysteries for 3-2-1 Contact as well as serving as a consultant for the Mathnet mysteries on Square One TV. He graduated from San Diego State University in 1949. The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman, 2008, Greenwillow Books edition, in English - 1st ed. Harris, a destroyer escort in World War II, and was a reporter for the San Diego Daily Journal until it folded in 1950. His best-known book is The Whipping Boy, which won the Newbery Medal.īefore becoming an author, he was a professional magician, and served in the U.S. A former American soldier stays in post World War II Europe as a ventriloquist, having little success until he meets Avrom Amos. Birch’s ventriloquist act takes a radical turn when he is possessed by the ghost of Avrom Amos, a twelve-year-old Jewish boy killed by the Nazis. He was a long time resident of Santa Monica, California. The Entertainer and the Dybbuk 6.99 Buy Now by Sid Fleischman After World War II, sergeant Freddie T.

He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Jewish Russian extraction. Albert Sidney Fleischman (Ma– March 17, 2010), pen name Sid Fleischman, was a Newbery Medal-winning author of children's books.

The entertainer and the dybbuk by sid fleischman