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Autobiography & Memoir

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
Cover of Treasures, Shipwrecks, and the Dawn of Red Sea Diving
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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
Cover of The Survivor: How I Made it Through Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter
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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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The Shochet (Vol. 2): A Mem­oir of Jew­ish Life in Ukraine and Crimea
Pinkhes-Dov Gold­en­shteyn; Michoel Roten­feld, trans.
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Dirt­bag Queen
Andy Cor­ren
Interview

Find­ing Home With­in: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Jen­nifer Lang

Diane Got­tlieb
December 30, 2024
Cover of Warsaw Testament
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War­saw Testament
Samuel Kas­sow
Cover of Landed: A yogi's memoir in pieces & poses
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Land­ed: A yogi’s mem­oir in pieces & poses
Jen­nifer Lang
Cover of I Just Let Life Rain Down on Me: Selected Letters and Reflections
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I Just Let Life Rain Down on Me: Select­ed Let­ters and Reflections
Rahel Levin Varnhagen; Peter Wortsman, ed. and trans.
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Heavy­weight: A Fam­i­ly Sto­ry of the Holo­caust, Empire, and Memory
Solomon J. Brager
Cover of Green World: A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare
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Green World: A Tragi­com­ic Mem­oir of Love & Shakespeare
Michelle Ephraim
Cover of The Diario: The Daring Escape of Two Sephardic Jews from Turkey to America During World War I
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The Diario: The Dar­ing Escape of Two Sephardic Jews from Turkey to Amer­i­ca Dur­ing World War I
Alfred Ascher; Gloria J. Ascher, trans.
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