I find it hard to believe that anyone could find anything redeeming about The Red Magician by Lisa Goldstein. Yes, this is a novel for children, but that makes it all the more shameful that this book is out there as an example of Holocaust literature.
There are inconsistent messages here; the community is warned to leave, but most do not. There is a sense of blame for their naivete. But really, where did they have to go? The struggle between the Red Magician and the Rabbi also fails to make sense. The Rabbi wants to blame the Red Magician for the death of his daughter, when really, the blame rests with the German murders and their collaborators.
This is story that is confused about its own
fundamentals. At times, it reads like
the outline for some more fully imagined work that does not exist.
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