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Autobiography & Memoir

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Ency­clo­pe­dia of an Ordi­nary Life
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
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Com­pa­ny C: An Amer­i­can’s Life as a Cit­i­zen-Sol­dier in Israel
Haim Watz­man
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Jubana! The Awk­ward­ly True and Daz­zling Adven­tures of a Jew­ish Cuban Goddess
Gigi Anders
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Tevye’s Grand­chil­dren: Redis­cov­er­ing Jew­ish Identity
Eleanor Mallet
Cover of And Yet I Still Have Dreams: A Story of a Certain Loneliness
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And Yet I Still Have Dreams: A Sto­ry of a Cer­tain Loneliness
Joanna Wiszniewicz; Regina Grol, trans.
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The Let­ters That Nev­er Came
Mauricio Rosencof; Louise B. Popkin, trans.; Introduction by Ilan Stavans
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Oil: Israel’s Covert Efforts to Secure Oil Supplies
Zvi Alexander
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The Labyrinth of Dan­ger­ous Hours: A Mem­oir of the Sec­ond World War
Lilka Trzcinska-Croydon
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Guard­ed by Angels: How My Father and Uncle Sur­vived Hitler and Cheat­ed Stalin
Alan Elsner; Foreword by David Cesarani
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We Jews and Blacks: Mem­oir With Poems
Willis Barn­stone
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How the Left Lost Teen Spirit
Danny Goldberg
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Chil­dren’s
Dan­ger on My Doorstep: The Ani­ta Flo­ra Pow­itzer Story
Linda Schubert; Mary Beatty-Brooks, illus.
Chil­dren’s
I Will Plant You Like a Lilac Tree: A Mem­oir of a Schindler’s List Survivor
Laura Hillman
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Body of Dimin­ish­ing Motion: Poems and a Memoir
Joan Seliger Sidney
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Jerusalem: Chron­i­cles from the Holy City
Guy Delisle
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Love in a World of Sor­row: A Teenage Girl’s Holo­caust Memoirs
Fanya Gottesfeld Heller
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