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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of Black Seasons
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    Black Sea­sons
    Michal Glowinski; Marci Shore, trans.
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    On Aus­tri­an Soil: Teach­ing Those I Was Taught to Hate
    Sondra Perl
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    Har­vey Pekar’s Cleveland
    Harvey Pekar; Joseph Remnant, illus.
    Cover of On Long Winter Nights: Memoirs of a Jewish Family in a Galician Township (1870-1900)
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    On Long Win­ter Nights: Mem­oirs of a Jew­ish Fam­i­ly in a Gali­cian Town­ship (1870−1900)
    Hinde Bergner; Justin Cammy, trans. and ed.
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    Atta Girl! A Memoir
    Genie Zeiger
    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
    Non­fic­tion
    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
    Poet­ry
    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
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    Five Ger­manys I Have Known
    Fritz Stern
    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
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    In Sun­shine and in Shad­ow: We Remem­ber Them
    Vera Herman Goodkin, Ed.D.
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    In the Gar­den of Mem­o­ry: A Fam­i­ly Memoir
    Joanna Olczak-Ronikier
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