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    Autobiography & Memoir

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    Sweet and Low: A Fam­i­ly Story
    Rich Cohen
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    The For­tune Teller’s Kiss
    Brenda Serotte
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    Holy Unex­pect­ed: My New Life as a Jew
    Robin Chotzinoff
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    Life, Death and Bialys: A Father/​Son Bak­ing Story
    Dylan Schaffer
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    Full Swing: Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer’s Life
    Ira Berkow
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    Des­ig­nat­ed Hebrew: The Ron Blomberg Story
    Ron Blomberg, As Told To Dan Schlossberg
    Cover of Writing a Jewish Life: Memoirs
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    Writ­ing a Jew­ish Life: Memoirs
    Lev Raphael
    Cover of A Village Named Dowgalishok: The Massacre at Radon and Eishishok
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    A Vil­lage Named Dow­gal­ishok: The Mas­sacre at Radon and Eishishok
    Avraham Aviel; Atalya Broide, trans.
    Cover of When Grownups Play at War: A Child's Memoir
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    When Grownups Play at War: A Child’s Memoir
    Ilona Flutsztein-Gruda; Sarah Cummins, trans
    Cover of Mendel's Daughter: A Memoir
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    Mendel’s Daugh­ter: A Memoir
    Gusta Lemelman; Martin Lemelman
    Cover of One Who Came Back: The Diary of a Jewish Survivor
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    One Who Came Back: The Diary of a Jew­ish Survivor
    Joseph Katz; Hilda Reach, trans.; Foreword by Herman Taube
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    Crap at My Par­ents’ House
    Joel Dovev
    Cover of Oddly Normal: One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality
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    Odd­ly Nor­mal: One Fam­i­ly’s Strug­gle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality
    John Schwartz
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    Be the Hero of Your Story
    Richard Krevolin and Eliana Barbosa
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    Oy! Only Six? Why Not More? Six-Word Mem­oirs on Jew­ish Life
    Lar­ry Smith
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    And the Bridge is Love
    Faye Moskowitz
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