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The Book of Izzy by Ben Gonshor; Montreal, Canada: AOS Publishing (c) 2024; ISBN 9781990-496462; 324 pages; $17.92. SAN DIEGO — A would-be author, off his psychiatric medications and wandering between the worlds of the neurotypical and the schizophrenic, is so knowledgeable about Yiddish that he is invited to act in The Dybbuk, a well-known play by S. An-sky, which Izzy had memorized line-by-line years ago. Although steeped in Jewish folklore and mysticism, The Dybbuk is reminiscent of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in that two forbidden lovers both end up dead before the curtain falls. The po…

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