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    Cover of My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy
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    My Child­hood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Com­e­dy, a Skok­ie Elegy
    Edward Hirsch
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    Fron­tier: A Mem­oir and a Ghost Story
    Eri­ca Stern
    Cover of Dancing with Muddy: Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, and My Lucky Life in and Out of the Blues
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    Danc­ing with Mud­dy: Mud­dy Waters, Eric Clap­ton, and My Lucky Life in and Out of the Blues
    Jer­ry Portnoy
    Cover of Too Much Of Nothing: Notes on Feminism, Identity, and Womanhood
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    Too Much Of Noth­ing: Notes on Fem­i­nism, Iden­ti­ty, and Womanhood
    Car­la Stockton
    Cover of Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile
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    Good­bye, Tahrir Square: Com­ing of Age as a Jew of the Nile
    Elio Zarmati
    Cover of So We Died: A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania
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    So We Died: A Mem­oir of Life and Death in the Ghet­to of Šiau­li­ai, Lithuania
    Levi Shalit; Ellen Cassedy, trans.
    Cover of What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt
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    What Remains: The Col­lect­ed Poems of Han­nah Arendt
    Hannah Arendt; Genese Grill, trans.
    Cover of Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments
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    Milk­weed and Hon­ey Cake: A Mem­oir in Rit­u­al Moments
    Wendy A. Horwitz
    Cover of Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter's Survival In Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen
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    Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holo­caust Mem­oir of a Moth­er and Daugh­ter’s Sur­vival In Jew­ish Ghet­tos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen
    Renee Salt
    Kate Thomp­son
    Cover of Your Roots Cast a Shadow: One Family's Search Across History for Belonging
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    Your Roots Cast a Shad­ow: One Fam­i­ly’s Search Across His­to­ry for Belonging
    Car­o­line Topperman
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    Trea­sures, Ship­wrecks, and the Dawn of Red Sea Diving
    Howard Rosen­stein
    Cover of We Are Black Jews. Ethiopian Jewry and the Journey to Equality in Israel
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    We Are Black Jews. Ethiopi­an Jew­ry and the Jour­ney to Equal­i­ty in Israel
    Roni Fan­tanesh Malkai
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    Internee Num­ber 6
    Maria Eisenstein; Will Schutt, trans.
    Cover of How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty
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    How to Share an Egg: A True Sto­ry of Hunger, Love, and Plenty
    Bon­ny Reichert
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    The Sur­vivor: How I Made it Through Six Con­cen­tra­tion Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter 
    Josef Lewkow­icz
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    The Shochet (Vol. 1): A Mem­oir of Jew­ish Life in Ukraine and Crimea
    Pinkhes-Dov Gold­en­shteyn; Michoel Roten­feld, trans.
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