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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of The Return of Carvajal: A Mystery
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    The Return of Car­va­jal: A Mystery
    Ilan Sta­vans
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    Mixed Mes­sages: Reflec­tions on an Ital­ian Jew­ish Fam­i­ly and Exile
    Eleanor Foa
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    A Book­shop in Berlin: The Redis­cov­ered Mem­oir of One Woman’s Har­row­ing Escape from the Nazis
    Françoise Frenkel (auth.), Stephanie Smee (trans.), Patrick Modiano (fwd.)
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    From Psalms to Milosz: My Jour­ney through Poetry

    Yonatan Berg
    February 10, 2020
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    The Col­or of Love: A Sto­ry of a Mixed Race Jew­ish Girl
    Mar­ra B. Gad
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    My Sur­vival: A Girl on Schindler’s List
    Rina Finder, with Joshua M. Greene
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    Loy­al to the Sky: Notes from an Activist
    Marisa Han­dler
    From the Journal

    ‘The Secret Was Me’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Dani Shapiro and T Kira Madden

    Bec­ca Kantor
    January 28, 2020
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    The Words of My Father: Love and Pain in Palestine
    Yousef Bashir
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    Friend­ly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Ene­my and the Hope for Its Future
    Ami Ayalon
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    What We Will Become: A Moth­er, a Son, and a Jour­ney of Transformation
    Mimi Lemay
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    Becom­ing Eve 
    Abby Stein
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    Sav­age Feast: Three Gen­er­a­tions, Two Con­ti­nents, and a Din­ner Table (a Mem­oir with Recipes)
    Boris Fish­man
    Essay

    Writ­ing Your Reli­gion: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Sarah Hurwitz

    Deb­o­rah Miller
    December 16, 2019
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    Sing This at My Funer­al: A Mem­oir of Fathers and Sons
    David Sluc­ki
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    The For­tu­nate Foàs of Sabbioneta

    Eleanor Foa
    November 4, 2019
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