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    Autobiography & Memoir

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    Kiss­ing Girls on Shab­bat: A Memoir
    Sara Glass
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    My Hijack­ing: A Per­son­al His­to­ry of For­get­ting and Remembering
    Martha Hodes
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    Queer Jew­ish Sto­ries: The Mem­oirs That Inspired Me

    Sara Glass
    June 10, 2024
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    The Most Human: Rec­on­cil­ing With My Father Leonard Nimoy
    Adam Nimoy
    Interview

    “Leonard’s Sto­ry Is My Sto­ry Too”: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Adam Nimoy

    Isado­ra Kianovsky 
    June 3, 2024
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    The Ghost Tattoo
    Tony Bernard
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    Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man’s Tale of Depres­sion, Psy­chic Tor­ment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
    Jer­ry Stahl
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    JBC Book­shelf: Sum­mer 2024

    Simona Zaret­sky
    May 13, 2024
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    Unex­pect­ed Pas­sages, 1940 – 41 
    Rachel Scheer
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    Excerpt: The For­bid­den Daughter

    Zipo­ra Klein Jakob
    April 28, 2024
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    The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews: A Memoir
    Chef Rossi
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    My Life in Fragments
    Zygmunt Bauman
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    My Life in Recipes: Food, Fam­i­ly, and Memories
    Joan Nathan
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    My Kad­dish: A Child Speaks from the War­saw Ghetto
    Thérèse (Ter­ri) Masson
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    The Brighton Beach Bible
    Joel Silverstein
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    Escape from Dachau: A True Sto­ry of Sur­vival, Courage, and a Dar­ing Escape in the Face of Unthink­able Evil
    Kathe Mueller Slonim
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