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When I Grow Up: the Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers
Ken Krimstein
Illustrator: Ken Krimstein
Ages: 14+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-63557-370-1
Keywords: Jewish youth, Jews - Lithuania, Memoir, pre-WWII
Life in Lithuania/Poland is described by contestants in a 1932 literary contest for Jewish teenagers. Filled with joy, romance, humor and tragedy. Pen and ink/pastel illustrations. Back matter.