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Autobiography & Memoir

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Comin’ Right at Ya: How a Jew­ish Yan­kee Hip­pie Went Coun­try or the Often Out­ra­geous His­to­ry of Asleep at the Wheel
Ray Benson and David Menconi
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The Hands of Peace: A Holo­caust Survivor’s Fight for Civ­il Rights in the Amer­i­can South
Marione Ingram
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Shulem Deen’s Top 10 Rules for Mem­oir Writing

Jew­ish Book Coun­cil was hon­ored to present Shulem Deen, the author of the 2015 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards win­ner of the Myra H. Kraft Memo­r­i­al Award for Con­tem­po­rary…
Shulem Deen
January 14, 2016
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Their Promised Land: My Grand­par­ents in Love and War
Ian Buruma
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Sailor and Fid­dler: Reflec­tions of a 100-Year-Old Author
Her­man Wouk
Essay

My Mom, a Character

Judy Batal­ion is the author of White Walls: A Mem­oir About Moth­er­hood, Daugh­ter­hood, and the Mess In Between. She is blog­ging here all week as part of the Vis­it­ing…
Judy Batal­ion
January 4, 2016
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White Walls: A Mem­oir About Moth­er­hood, Daugh­ter­hood, and the Mess In Between
Judy Batal­ion
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A Brief Stop on the Road From Auschwitz
Goran Rosenberg
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Unlike­ly War­rior: A Jew­ish Sol­dier in Hitler’s Army
Georg Rauch, Phyllis Rauch, trans.
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Pump­kin­flow­ers: A Sol­dier’s Story
Mat­ti Friedman
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One and the Same: My Life as an Iden­ti­cal Twin and What I’ve Learned About Every­one’s Strug­gle to Be Singular
Abi­gail Pogrebin
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The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes in My Life and Career as a Tele­vi­sion Writer
Rita Lakin
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The Best Boy in the Unit­ed States Of Amer­i­ca: A Mem­oir of Bless­ings and Kisses
Ron Wolf­son
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A Purge to Pre­serve the Myth of Spot­less Escape

Excerpt­ed from Paper Love: Search­ing for the Girl My Grand­fa­ther Left Behind by Sarah Wild­man, now avail­able in paper­back from River­head Books.It was some years after his…
Sarah Wild­man
October 13, 2015
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The Strangers We Became
Cyn­thia Kaplan Shamash
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Ally: My Jour­ney Across the Amer­i­can-Israeli Divide
Michael Oren
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