jewish teenagers

The author draws from her experiences in the Lubavitch community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to examine the lives of Hasidic girls ages thirteen to twenty-three, discussing their hopes, thoughts, values, and feelings about religious life.

After spending a year living as an observer in the Lubavitcher community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the author profiles seven girls from the community ages thirteen to twenty-three about their adolescent concerns and their experience at Lubavitch.

In text and photographs, young people living in Jerusalem tell what it is like to live in this sacred, yet volatile, city.

Excerpts from five diaries written by Jewish teenagers about their families' experiences during World War II.

In 1945, after surviving a harrowing year in Auschwitz, fourteen-year-old Elli returns, along with her mother and brother, to the family home, now part of Slovakia, where they try to find a way to rebuild their shattered lives.

Details the experiences of five Jewish teenagers who hid from the Nazis during World War II, also describing their lives after the war.

Relates the stories of Jewish teenagers who were sent to Nazi concentration camps where they were separated from their families and survived years of exhausting labor, scarce food, and cruel guards.

A coming-of-age story of a Jewish teenage girl living in 1890s Chicago, aspiring to become an artist, but dealing with family problems along the way.

Presents the true story of Inge Joseph Bleier who survived World War Two by fleeing Germany leaving her family behind and seeking shelter with the Swiss Red Cross until eventually taken away to a camp by French gendarmes.

Excerpts from five diaries written by Jewish teenagers about their families' experiences during World War II.