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" An NPR Best Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of the YearA Chicago Tribune Fall Best Read An Alma most anticipated book of November From the prize-winning author of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt , a stunning graphic narrative of newly discovered stories from Jewish teens on the cusp of WWII. When I Grow Up is New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's new graphic nonfiction book, based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never-before-published autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish teens on the brink of WWII-found in 2017 hidden in a Lithuanian church cellar. These autobiographies, long thought destroyed by the Nazis, were written as entries for three competitions held in Eastern Europe in the 1930s, just before the horror of the Holocaust forever altered the lives of the young people who wrote them. In When I Grow Up , Krimstein shows us the stories of these six young men and women in riveting, almost cinematic narratives, full of humor, yearning, ambition, and all the angst of the teenage years. It's as if half a dozen new Anne Frank stories have suddenly come to light, framed by the dramatic story of the documents' rediscovery. Beautifully illustrated, heart-wrenching, and bursting with life, When I Grow Up reveals how the tragedy that is about to befall these young people could easily happen again, to any of us, if we don't learn to listen to the voices from the past. "
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Biographisches: " Ken Krimstein has published cartoons in the New Yorker , Punch , the Wall Street Journal , and more. He is the author of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt , which won the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography and Memoir, and was a finalist for the Jewish Book Award and the Chautauqua Prize, and also of Kvetch as Kvetch Can . He lives and writes and draws in Evanston, Illinois." Rezension(2): "Chicago Magazine:Poignant ... Ken Krimstein's latest book sketches a powerful portrait of Eastern European Jewish youths, full of angst and optimism, on the eve of the Holocaust ... Yearning is, in fact, the collection's dominant emotion." Rezension(3): "Kirkus Reviews, starred review:A moving work of literary archaeology, rescuing Jewish texts from the oblivion of history ... [An] excellent follow-up to The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt , [Krimstein's] illustrations recall both Chagall and Art Spiegelman." Rezension(4): "Publishers Weekly, starred review:Deeply affecting yet often joyful ... these recovered works form the basis of Krimstein's narrative, and the fact that almost all of the young writers perished at the hands of the Nazis casts an ominous shadow. Yet the six young people who come alive in pencil and watercolor are hopeful, defiant, lovelorn, and smart ... Krimstein's loose-lined drawings shift between sobriety and humor, while footnotes provide context ... By depicting the personalities of youth lost-with easy beauty and a lack of preciosity-rather than how they died, Krimstein conveys the depth of human and cultural loss that much more profoundly." Rezension(5): "Noah Van Sciver, Ignatz Award-winning author of The Complete Works of Fante Bukowski:With his signature invigorating art, Ken Krimstein bridges time to connect us with these fascinating lost stories. This is a revelation and a gift!" Rezension(6): "Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus and Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography in New York:Ken Krimstein is a brilliant graphic artist and caricaturist-but above all he is a master storyteller. His new graphic narrative on the Holocaust is destined to become a classic. When I Grow Up is one of those haunting lost stories." Rezension(7): "Amy Kurzweil, author of Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir:A remarkably salvaged history brought fully to life by Ken Krimstein's humor, sensitivity, and vibrant ink drawings. These autobiographies are a rare and special glimpse into the life of six bright, bold, Jewish teenagers-artists, scholars, and activists waking up to their world just before it ignited. Brimming with details and definitions, When I Grow Up is an important contribution to the preservation of Jewish history and culture." Rezension(8): "Carol Isaacs, author of The Wolf of Baghdad: Memoir of a Lost Homeland:Poignant and haunting, the stories of silenced voices are beautifully drawn back to life. These lost autobiographies could not have been found by anyone more perfect to tell them." Rezension(9): "Joseph Berger, author of Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust:Hitler may have destroyed the vibrant world of Lithuanian Jewry, but remnants of its literary, cultural and quotidian life were salvaged by a band of resourceful librarians and Ken Krimstein has transformed a package of those treasures for us to savor, ponder and grieve. He has taken six stories of ordinary life written by teenagers for a prewar essay contest and with inventive and poignant doodle-like drawings brought the Lithuanian Jews to life all over again." Rezension(10): "Roz Chast on THE THREE ESCAPES OF HANNAH ARENDT:Ken Krimstein's deeply moving graphic memoir is not only about Hannah Arendt. It's also, through her words, about how to live in the world, the meaning of freedom, the perils of totalitarianism, and our power as human beings to think about things and not just act blindly. Krimstein explains Arendt's ideas with clarity, wit, and enormous erudition, and they still resonate." Rezension(11): "The Forward on THE THREE ESCAPES OF HANNAH ARENDT:Depicts Arendt in a way no other book has8212" Rezension(12): "Kirkus (Starred Review) on THE THREE ESCAPES OF HANNAH ARENDT:A compelling performance with great pacing . both intelligible and memorable." Rezension(13): "Minneapolis Star Tribune on THE THREE ESCAPES OF HANNAH ARENDT:Gorgeous . despite the often dark subject matter, it's packed with wit . it's a fun and, especially in a final illustration that encapsulates Arendt's hopes for a better world, inspiring work." Rezension(14): "Deborah Levy on THE THREE ESCAPES OF HANNAH ARENDT:This is an incredible story, artfully told with exuberance, humor, and compassion." Rezension(15): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: November 1, 2021 A moving work of literary archaeology, rescuing Jewish texts from the oblivion of history. Es iz shver tsu zeyn a yid. It's hard to be a Jew. History has proven that countless times, with particular fury in the place New Yorkercontributing cartoonist Krimstein calls Yiddishuania. There, in 1939, a linguistic and cultural institute mounted an ethnographic study in the guise of a meagerly funded autobiography contest. By cruel irony, the winners were to be announced on Sept. 1, 1939, the day the Nazis invaded Poland. The Gestapo seized many of the documents, but librarians spirited some away--and then hid them again when Stalin launched a Soviet pogrom after the war. The first essay, by an unidentified 17-year-old girl, is a record of repression: She was discouraged from reading religious and secular texts thought inappropriate for women and was forbidden from saying kaddish after her father died. Another essay recounts the efforts of a 20-year-old man who spent his time and money writing letters to Franklin Roosevelt pleading for asylum, a request that the State Department declined. Another young man questions traditional religion, not least because he was in love with a young woman who did not return the affection. Was it because I didn't become a Communist and start eating pork? he wonders. Was it because I couldn't go to the dinner dance her socialist youth group had on Yom Kippur? The ordinary travails of adolescence and young adulthood become more sharply pronounced against the background of descending terror. In this excellent follow-up to The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt, Krimstein, whose illustrations recall both Chagall and Art Spiegelman, closes by affirming these pieces as voices, garments, smiles, years, laughter--in short, living documents in the face of death. Affecting records of a world at once familiar and distant--a welcome addition to the literature of the Shoah. COPYRIGHT(2021) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(16): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from November 15, 2021 As Krimstein ( The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt ) explains in his deeply affecting yet often joyful graphic narrative, the question of “How can one live as a Jew?” undergirded daily life in what he calls “Yiddishuania”—a region in Eastern Europe that included nine million Jews in 1939. Linguist Max Weinreich launched “an ethnographic study in the guise of a meagerly funded autobiography contest” for Yiddish-speaking teens in 1932,these recovered works form the basis of Krimstein’s narrative, and the fact that almost all of the young writers perished at the hands of the Nazis casts an ominous shadow. Yet the six young people who come alive in pencil and watercolor are hopeful, defiant, lovelorn, and smart. They see their dreams deferred: “It was as if on a beautiful summer’s day a wind blew and rain fell and... destroyed... everything around,” remarks a 20-year-old forbidden from continuing his education because he’s Jewish, who goes on to pen missives to the likes of FDR and the mayor of Tel Aviv. Krimstein’s loose-lined drawings shift between sobriety and humor, while footnotes provide context, such as describing a Yeshiva “bokher” as “distinguished by their obsessive commitment to intellectual ‘cage-wrestling’... and a tendency to squint” (though some language choices may still be debated, such as where German is used instead of Yiddish). By depicting the personalities of youth lost—with easy beauty and a lack of preciosity—rather than how they died, Krimstein conveys the depth of human and cultural loss that much more profoundly. Agent: Jennifer Lyons, Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency. "
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