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

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

Cover of Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education

Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education

Morris Dickstein

Cover of More Love, Less Panic: 7 Lessons I Learned About Life, Love, and Parenting After We Adopted Our Son from Ethiopia

More Love, Less Panic: 7 Lessons I Learned About Life, Love, and Parenting After We Adopted Our Son from Ethiopia

Cover of Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist: The Story of a Transformation

Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist: The Story of a Transformation

Yossi Klein Halevi

Cover of The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family

The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family

Cover of My Old Neighborhood Remembered

My Old Neighborhood Remembered

Cover of Chanah’s Voice: A Rabbi Wrestles with Gender, Commandment, and the Women’s Rituals of Baking, Bathing, and Brightening

Chanah’s Voice: A Rabbi Wrestles with Gender, Commandment, and the Women’s Rituals of Baking, Bathing, and Brightening

Haviva Ner-David