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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of The Last Jews in Baghdad: Remembering a Lost Homeland
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    The Last Jews in Bagh­dad: Remem­ber­ing a Lost Homeland
    Nissim Rejwan
    Cover of Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me
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    Not the Israel My Par­ents Promised Me
    Harvey Pekar and JT Waldman
    Cover of Say the Name: A Survivor's Tale in Prose and Poetry
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    Say the Name: A Sur­vivor’s Tale in Prose and Poetry
    Judith H. Sherman
    Cover of Threads: More Stories from a New York Life
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    Threads: More Sto­ries from a New York Life
    Steven Schrader
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    A Zion­ist Among Palestinians
    Hillel Bardin
    Cover of An Uncommon Journey: From Vienna to Shanghai to America--A Brother and Sister Escape to Freedom During World War II
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    An Uncom­mon Jour­ney: From Vien­na to Shang­hai to Amer­i­ca – A Broth­er and Sis­ter Escape to Free­dom Dur­ing World War II
    Deborah Strobin and Ilie Wacs, with S.J. Hodges
    Cover of Five Germanys I Have Known
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    Five Ger­manys I Have Known
    Fritz Stern
    Cover of In Sunshine and in Shadow: We Remember Them
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    In Sun­shine and in Shad­ow: We Remem­ber Them
    Vera Herman Goodkin, Ed.D.
    Cover of In the Garden of Memory: A Family Memoir
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    In the Gar­den of Mem­o­ry: A Fam­i­ly Memoir
    Joanna Olczak-Ronikier
    Cover of Through Blood and Tears: Surviving Hitler and Stalin
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    Through Blood and Tears: Sur­viv­ing Hitler and Stalin
    Henry Skorr; Ivan Sokolov
    Cover of The First and Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich: A Son's Memoir
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    The First and Final Night­mare of Sonia Reich: A Son’s Memoir
    Howard Reich
    Cover of A Candle in the Heart: Memoir of a Child Survivor
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    A Can­dle in the Heart: Mem­oir of a Child Survivor
    Judith Alter Kallman; Deborah Alter Goldenberg, fwd.
    Cover of Arguably: Essays
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    Arguably: Essays
    Christopher Hitchens
    Cover of We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust
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    We Are Here: Mem­o­ries of the Lithuan­ian Holocaust
    Ellen Cassedy
    Cover of A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi
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    A Jew­ish Voice from Ottoman Saloni­ca: The Ladi­no Mem­oir of Sa’adi Besalel a‑Levi
    Aron Rodrigue and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, eds.; Isaac Jerusalmi, trans.
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    The Patag­on­ian Hare: A Memoir
    Claude Lanzmann; Frank Wynne, trans.
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