Upon the Head of the Goat

Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939–1944 is a 1981 children's memoir by Jewish author and Holocaust survivor Aranka Siegal.^[1] It follows the author as a young girl, Piri Davidowitz, (the name 'Piri' comes from the Yiddish name Siegal's grandmother used to call her by, 'Perele') a Hungarian Jew growing up during the Holocaust and Nazi Germany's occupation of Hungary. The title comes from the Book of Leviticus and the story of the scapegoat.^[1] The book earned a Newbery Honor in 1982.^[2] the title, Upon the Head of the Goat, comes from the Biblical passage, Leviticus 16, which Siegal came across while looking up the definition of "scapegoat".