Finkelstein reportedly died on Sunday, January 24, 2016.
| “A Serious Man kicks off with a Yiddish-language frame story that takes place in a 19th-century Eastern European shtetl, where a married couple has an enigmatic encounter with an old acquaintance who may be a dybbuk , or malevolent spirit (and who’s played by the Yiddish theater actor Fyvush Finkel). The import of this parable is cryptic to the point of inscrutability, making it a perfect introduction to the rest of the movie.”
— Dana Stevens at Slate.com on Oct. 1, 2009 |
See also Finkelstein in this journal.
See as well posts now tagged Oct. 4, 2018,
in the context of today’s previous post.