Items with the category: Autobiography & Memoir | Jewish Book Council

Cover of Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home

Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home

Cover of The House of Twenty Thousand Books

The House of Twenty Thousand Books

Cover of A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet: My Grandfather's SS Past, My Jewish Family, a Search for the Truth

A Guest at the Shooters’ Banquet: My Grandfather’s SS Past, My Jewish Family, a Search for the Truth

Cover of Open Up the Iron Door: Memoirs of a Soviet Jewry Activist

Open Up the Iron Door: Memoirs of a Soviet Jewry Activist

Rabbi Avraham Weiss

Cover of Madame Ambassador: Behind the Scenes with a Candid Israeli Diplomat

Madame Ambassador: Behind the Scenes with a Candid Israeli Diplomat

Cover of Everything You Ever Wanted

Everything You Ever Wanted

Cover of On the Front Lines in a Changing Jewish World: Collected Writings, 1988-2013

On the Front Lines in a Changing Jewish World: Collected Writings, 1988 – 2013

Michael C. Kotzin

Cover of American Ghost: The True Story of a Family's Haunted Past

American Ghost: The True Story of a Family’s Haunted Past

Hannah Nordhaus

Cover of The Lost Book of Mormon

The Lost Book of Mormon

Cover of Do the KIND Thing: Think Boundlessly, Work Purposefully, Live Passionately

Do the KIND Thing: Think Boundlessly, Work Purposefully, Live Passionately

Daniel Lubetzky

Essay

Some Thoughts About Autobiographical Novels

I’m sometimes asked if my novel, A Reunion of Ghosts, is autobiographical. The first time I heard this question I was taken aback. A Reunion of…

Judith Claire Mitchell

March 18, 2015

Cover of My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past

Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair; Carolin Sommer, trans.

Cover of All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir

All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir

Cover of The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, and the Importance of Handbags

The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, and the Importance of Handbags

Cover of Theo: An Autobiography

Theo: An Autobiography

Cover of Farewell, Aleppo: My Father, My People, and Their Long Journey Home

Farewell, Aleppo: My Father, My People, and Their Long Journey Home

Claudette E. Sutton