When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers

author: Ken Krimstein
name: Wayne
average rating: 4.44
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2021/12/27
date added: 2021/12/27
shelves: non-fiction, graphic-novels
review:
'When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers' with editing and art by Ken Krimstein is a graphic novel of stories of six Eastern European teenagers right before WWII.

In 2017, a trove of lost Yiddish writing was found in a church in Lithuania. Ken Krimstein, a New Yorker cartoonist, selected some entries in a contest by Yiddish teenagers. The rules stated that the contestants had to be anonymous, so with the exception of one entrant who broke the rules, no one knows what happened to these young writers on the eve of World War II.

There is poignancy and humor to be had here. The promise of futures that were cut short or tragically changed. The art works here and there are lots of words in the Yiddish language to pick up along the way.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Bloomsbury USA and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.


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