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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of On The Run In Nazi Berlin
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    On The Run In Nazi Berlin
    Bev Saltz­man Lewyn
    Cover of My Life through My Dresses: Growing Up Socialist
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    My Life through My Dress­es: Grow­ing Up Socialist
    Mari­na Berkovich
    Cover of Buried Rivers: A Spiritual Journey into the Holocaust
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    Buried Rivers: A Spir­i­tu­al Jour­ney into the Holocaust
    Ellen Kor­man Mains
    Cover of The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing
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    The Sur­vivors: A Sto­ry of War, Inher­i­tance, and Healing
    Adam P. Frankel
    Cover of Shores Beyond Shores: From Holocaust to Hope, My True Story
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    Shores Beyond Shores: From Holo­caust to Hope, My True Story
    Irene Butter, John D. Bidwell, and Kris Holloway
    Cover of Mah Jongg Mondays: A Memoir About Friendship, Love and Faith
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    Mah Jongg Mon­days: A Mem­oir About Friend­ship, Love and Faith
    Fern Bern­stein
    Cover of Where the Angels Lived: One Family's Story of Exile, Loss, and Return
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    Where the Angels Lived: One Fam­i­ly’s Sto­ry of Exile, Loss, and Return
    Mar­garet McMullan
    Cover of The Question is "Why?": Stanford M. Adelstein, a Jewish Life in South Dakota
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    The Ques­tion is ​“Why?”: Stan­ford M. Adel­stein, a Jew­ish Life in South Dakota
    Eric Steven Zimmer; Stanford M. Adelstein, preface
    Cover of The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon: The Complete Translation
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    The Auto­bi­og­ra­phy of Solomon Mai­mon: The Com­plete Translation
    Yitzhak Y. Melamed (eds.), Abraham Socher (eds.), Paul Reitter (trans.)
    Cover of Palestine Posts: An Eye-Witness Account of the Birth of Israel
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    Pales­tine Posts: An Eye-Wit­ness Account of the Birth of Israel
    Daniel Chertoff
    Cover of Catbird: The Ballad of Barbi Prim
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    Cat­bird: The Bal­lad of Bar­bi Prim
    Bar­bara Ostfeld
    Cover of The Tragedy Test: Making Sense of Life-Changing Loss--A Rabbi's Journey
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    The Tragedy Test: Mak­ing Sense of Life-Chang­ing Loss – A Rab­bi’s Journey
    Richard Agler
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    Dri­ven: A Daugh­ter’s Odyssey
    Julie Held­man
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    Poet­ry
    Sound­Ma­chine
    Rachel Zucker
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    This Real­ly Isn’t About You
    Jean Han­nah Edelstein
    Cover of Too Much of Not Enough: A Memoir
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    Too Much of Not Enough: A Memoir
    Jane Pol­lak
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