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    Autobiography & Memoir

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    Mem­oir of an Inde­pen­dent Woman
    Tania Grossinger
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    Ser­e­nade: A Mem­oir of Music and Love from Vien­na and Prague to Los Ange­les, 1927 to World War II to 2012
    Car­ol Jean Delmar
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    Lies About My Family
    Amy Hoff­man
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    My 15 Grandmothers
    Genie Mil­grom
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    The Astor Orphan: A Memior
    Alexan­dra Aldrich
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    My New Orleans, Gone Away
    Peter Wolf
    Cover of The Crooked Mirror: A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation
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    The Crooked Mir­ror: A Mem­oir of Pol­ish-Jew­ish Reconciliation
    Louise Stein­man
    Cover of What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?: A Memoir of Jerusalem
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    What Do You Buy the Chil­dren of the Ter­ror­ist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?: A Mem­oir of Jerusalem
    David Har­ris-Ger­shon
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    Life­Jour­ney Books Do-It-Your­self Mem­oir Workbook
    Deborah Fineblum & Naomi Grossman
    Cover of My Life in Jewish Renewal: A Memoir
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    My Life in Jew­ish Renew­al: A Memoir
    Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi with Edward Hoffman
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    Trav­el­ing Heavy: A Mem­oir in between Journeys
    Ruth Behar
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    A For­got­ten Land: Grow­ing Up In The Jew­ish Pale, Based on the Rec­ol­lec­tions of Pearl Unikow Cooper
    Lisa Cooper
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    Let­ters to Talia
    Dov Indig; Yehuda Burdman, trans.
    Cover of Saul Bellow's Heart: A Son's Memoir
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    Saul Bel­low’s Heart: A Son’s Memoir
    Greg Bellow
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    Search­ing for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora
    Emi­ly Raboteau
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    Fol­low­ing Ezra: What One Father Learned About Gum­by, Otters, Autism, and Love From His Extra­or­di­nary Son
    Tom Fields-Mey­er
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