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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of 1915 Diary of S. A. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front
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    1915 Diary of S. A. An-sky: A Russ­ian Jew­ish Writer at the East­ern Front
    S. A. An-sky; Polly Zavadivker, trans.
    Essay

    Set­ting a Sto­ry in the Shell of a Rust Belt Boomtown

    Ear­li­er this week, Kim Brooks divulged the lit­tle-known Amer­i­can his­to­ry of World War II before Pearl Har­bor, which inspired her nov­el The House­guest. Kim is blog­ging…
    Kim Brooks
    April 13, 2016
    Essay

    It Isn’t Often You Come Across an Eighth-Gen­er­a­tion Israeli Jew

    Sar­it Yishai-Levi is the author of four non-fic­tion books and the best­selling nov­el The Beau­ty Queen of Jerusalem. Sar­it is blog­ging here all week as part of the…
    Sar­it Yishai-Levi
    April 4, 2016
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    Vladimir Jabotin­sky’s Sto­ry of My Life
    Vladimir Jabotinsky; Brain Horowitz and Leonid Katsis, eds.
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    Meant to Be: A Memoir
    Rabbi Marvin Hier
    Cover of Ketchup Is My Favorite Vegetable: A Family Grows Up With Autism
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    Ketchup Is My Favorite Veg­etable: A Fam­i­ly Grows Up With Autism
    Liane Kupfer­berg Carter
    Cover of Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World
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    Cast­ing Lots: Cre­at­ing a Fam­i­ly in a Beau­ti­ful, Bro­ken World
    Susan Sil­ver­man
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    But You Did Not Come Back
    Marceline Loridan-Ivens; Sandra Smith, trans.
    Cover of Spiritual Cross-Training: Searching through Silence, Stretch, and Song
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    Spir­i­tu­al Cross-Train­ing: Search­ing through Silence, Stretch, and Song
    Ben­jamin Shalva
    Interview

    Inter­view: Ian Buruma

    with Bob Gold­farb InTheir Promised Land, Ian Buru­ma tells the extra­or­di­nary sto­ry of his own grand­par­ents: British Jews who were apart dur­ing the World Wars and stayed…
    Bob Gold­farb
    February 2, 2016
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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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    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
    Essay

    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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