Lech Lecha=Go Forth

Author(s): Esther Carlebach
The play, written for intermediate school students, chronicles the changing circumstance of two young Jewish girls: one leaves for Palestine, the other remains in Nazi Germany. The play employs flashbacks to present their former lives and the events leading to their separation.
Format: Youth

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Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Publisher:

New York: Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York, 1983
In the collections at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Production Rights Holder:

New York: Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York, 1983

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