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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of Leaving Iran: Between Migration and Exile
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    Leav­ing Iran: Between Migra­tion and Exile
    Farideh Goldin
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    The Night Tril­o­gy: Night, Dawn, Day
    Elie Wiesel
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    I’m Sup­posed to Pro­tect You from All This
    Nadja Spiegelman
    Cover of Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir
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    Enchant­ed Air: Two Cul­tures, Two Wings: A Memoir
    Margarita Engle; Edel Rodriguez, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Lit­tle Amer­i­can Man: A Memoir
    Lior Lampert
    Essay

    Break­ing the Self-Imposed Silence

    Dorit Sas­son is the author of Acci­den­tal Sol­dier: A Mem­oir of Ser­vice in the Israel Defense Forces. She is guest blog­ging for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil all week as…
    Dorit Sas­son
    June 20, 2016
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    Hot Dog Taste Test
    Lisa Hanawalt
    Cover of Another Little Piece of My Heart: My Life of Rock and Revolution in the ‘60s
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    Anoth­er Lit­tle Piece of My Heart: My Life of Rock and Rev­o­lu­tion in the ​‘60s
    Richard Goldstein
    Cover of From Day to Day: One Man’s Diary of Survival in Nazi Concentration Camps
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    From Day to Day: One Man’s Diary of Sur­vival in Nazi Con­cen­tra­tion Camps
    Odd Nansen; Timothy J. Boyce, ed.
    Essay

    Heir­looms from Hungary

    Sophie Cook​’s fam­i­ly his­to­ry and child­hood expe­ri­ence of sur­viv­ing the Holo­caust in Hun­gary inform her first his­tor­i­cal nov­el, Anna & Eliz­a­beth. Sophie…
    Sophie Cook
    June 6, 2016
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    Find­ing Mr. Rightstein
    Nancy Davidoff Kelton
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    Girl: My Child­hood and the Sec­ond World War
    Alona Frankel
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    Lov­ing and Leav­ing Washington
    John Yochelson
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    The Rab­bi and Sen­a­tor Sleep Together
    Rabbi Steven and Senator Joyce Foster
    Cover of Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France
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    Asy­lum: A Sur­vivor’s Flight from Nazi-Occu­pied Vien­na Through Wartime France
    Moriz Scheyer, translated and with an epilogue by P.N. Singer
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    One of These Things First
    Steven Gaines
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