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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
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    A Can­dle in the Heart: Mem­oir of a Child Survivor
    Judith Alter Kallman; Deborah Alter Goldenberg, fwd.
    Cover of We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust
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    We Are Here: Mem­o­ries of the Lithuan­ian Holocaust
    Ellen Cassedy
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    Arguably: Essays
    Christopher Hitchens
    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.
    Cover of The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir
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    The Patag­on­ian Hare: A Memoir
    Claude Lanzmann; Frank Wynne, trans.
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    Sweet and Low: A Fam­i­ly Story
    Rich Cohen
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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
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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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    Writ­ing a Jew­ish Life: Memoirs
    Lev Raphael
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