Upon the Head of the Goat (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Aranka Siegal
- First Published: 1981
- Time of Work: 1939–1944
- Setting: Urban Hungary and rural Ukraine
- Principal Characters: Piri Davidowitz, Rise Davidowitz, Iboya Davidowitz, Babi, Judi Gerber, Henri
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Children’s literature
- Subjects: Family or family life, Adolescence, Autobiography, World War II, Jews or Jewish life, Nazism or Nazis, Holocaust, Jewish, Jews and Gentiles, Concentration camps, Persecution, Hungary or Hungarians
- Locales: Ukraine, Hungary
Form and Content
In Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary, 1939–1944, Aranka Siegal has provided a selective, somewhat fictionalized narrative based on a five-year period in her life. The narrative is divided into three major sections with numbered chapters.
In “Komjaty,” the first section, nine-year-old Piri Davidowitz (Siegal) is staying with her grandmother, Babi, in Ukraine when border battles of 1939 prevent her from returning to Hungary. She is introduced to the scapegoat theme, witnesses the deadly effects of war, and discovers when she is...
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