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Autobiography & Memoir

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I Am Not a Spy: An Amer­i­can Jew Goes Deep in the Arab World & Israeli Army
Michael Bassin
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A Sur­vivor’s Duty
Gabriel Laufer
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Los­ing the Nobel Prize: A Sto­ry of Cos­mol­o­gy, Ambi­tion, and the Per­ils of Sci­ence’s High­est Honor
Bri­an Keating
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The Sev­en, A Fam­i­ly Holo­caust Story
Ellen G. Friedman
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Lit­tle Pan­ic: Dis­patch­es from an Anx­ious Life
Aman­da Stern
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Wal­ter’s Wel­come: The Inti­mate Sto­ry of a Ger­man-Jew­ish Fam­i­ly’s Flight from the Nazis to Peru
Eva Neiss­er Echenberg
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White Hot Grief Parade: A Memoir
Alexan­dra Silber
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Lost and Found: Sur­viv­ing Dis­place­ment, Find­ing Love, Uncov­er­ing Secrets
Ann Avram Huber
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Left to the Mer­cy of a Rude Stream: The Bar­gain That Broke Adolf Hitler and Saved My Mother
Stan­ley Goldman
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Dis­armed: Uncon­ven­tion­al Lessons from the World’s Only One-Armed Spe­cial Forces Sharpshooter
Izzy Eza­gui
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Hitler, My Neigh­bor: Mem­o­ries of a Jew­ish Child­hood, 1929 – 1939
Edgar Feuchtwanger, Bertil Scali; Adriana Hunter, trans.
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This Nar­row Space: A Pedi­atric Oncol­o­gist, His Jew­ish, Mus­lim, and Chris­t­ian Patients, and a Hos­pi­tal in Jerusalem
Elisha Wald­man
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When His­to­ry Is Personal
Mimi Schwartz
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Maybe Esther: A Fam­i­ly Story
Katja Petrowskaja;‎ Shelley Frisch, trans.
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Roller-Coast­er Grand­ma: The Amaz­ing Sto­ry of Dr. Ruth
Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer and Pierre Lehu; Mark Simmons, illus.
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1947: Where Now Begins
Elisabeth Åsbrink; Fiona Graham, trans.
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