Dybbuk: A Story Made in Heaven
by Francine Prose
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Because forty days before a baby is born the angels in heaven decide whom it will marry, nothing prevents the wedding of Leah and Chonon from taking place.Tags
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Unlike most dybbuk stories, the dybbuk, who inhabits a bride, is alive (and her true love). Perhaps because this is a picture book for children and a happy ending is preferable. It is "loosely" based on S. Ansky's play, The Dybbuk>. The illustrations are in lovely colors; one shows the bride with the dybbuk "reflected" below her.
Because forty days before a baby is born the angels in heaven decide whom it will maryy, nothing prevents the wedding of Leah and Chonon from taking place.
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Francine Prose was born on April 1, 1947. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968. She received the PEN Translation Prize in 1988 and received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1991. Francine Prose novel The Glorious Ones, has been adapted into a musical with the same title by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. It ran at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater show more at Lincoln Center in New York City in the fall of 2007. Prose has served as president of PEN American Center, a New York City based literary society of writers, editors, and translators that works to advance literature in 2007 and 2008. Prose novel, Blue Angel, a satire about sexual harassment on college campuses, was a finalist for the National Book Award. One of her novels, Household Saints, was adapted for a movie by Nancy Savoca. In 2014 her title Lovers at the Chameleon Club - Paris 1932, made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Dybbuk; Leah; Chonon; Benya; the Grand Rabbi of Chopski
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- Chopski; Klopski
- Dedication
- For Bruno and Leon ---F.P.
For Bernie ---M.P. - First words
- Forty days before a baby is born, the angels in heaven get together and decide whom the baby will marry---when the baby grows up, of course.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Chonon was appointed the Assistant Grand Rabbi of Chopski, and he and Leah went on the have many happy children for the angels to match up with husbands and wives . . . forty days before they were born.
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