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    Autobiography & Memoir

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    The Sur­vivors: A Sto­ry of War, Inher­i­tance, and Healing
    Adam P. Frankel
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    Mah Jongg Mon­days: A Mem­oir About Friend­ship, Love and Faith
    Fern Bern­stein
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    Shores Beyond Shores: From Holo­caust to Hope, My True Story
    Irene Butter, John D. Bidwell, and Kris Holloway
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    Where the Angels Lived: One Fam­i­ly’s Sto­ry of Exile, Loss, and Return
    Mar­garet McMullan
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    The Ques­tion is ​“Why?”: Stan­ford M. Adel­stein, a Jew­ish Life in South Dakota
    Eric Steven Zimmer; Stanford M. Adelstein, preface
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    Scat­tered: A Most­ly True Memoir
    Jus­tine Hope Blau
    Cover of Ekaterinoslav: One Family's Passage to America: A Memoir in Verse
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    Eka­teri­noslav: One Fam­i­ly’s Pas­sage to Amer­i­ca: A Mem­oir in Verse
    Jane Yolen
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    The Com­plete Maus: A Sur­vivor’s Tale
    Art Spiegelman
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    Tur­bu­lent Souls: A Catholic Son’s Return to His Jew­ish Family
    Stephen J. Dubner
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    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    Anne Frank; Susan Massotty, trans.
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    From the Fair: The Auto­bi­og­ra­phy of Sholom Aleichem
    Sholom Aleichem; Curt Leviant, trans.
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    God’s Horse and The Athe­ist’s School
    Wilhelm Dichter; Madeline G. Levine, trans.
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    The Gam­bler’s Daugh­ter: A Per­son­al and Social History
    Annette B. Dunlap
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    The Pope and I: How the Life­long Friend­ship between a Pol­ish Jew and Pope John Paul II Advanced the Cause of Jew­ish Chris­t­ian Relations
    Jerzy Kluger with Gianfranco Di Simone
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    The Gersh­wins and Me
    Michael Feinstein
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    Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler: A True Love Sto­ry Rediscovered
    Trudy Kanter
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