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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of 1111 Days in My Life Plus Four
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    1111 Days in My Life Plus Four
    Ephraim F. Sten; Moshe Dor, trans.; Foreword by Myra Sklarew
    Cover of Mother and Me: Escape From Warsaw 1939
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    Moth­er and Me: Escape From War­saw 1939
    Julian Padowicz
    Cover of Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
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    Cross­ing the Bor­ders of Time: A True Sto­ry of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
    Leslie Mait­land
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    Jew­ish Journeys
    Jeremy Leigh
    Cover of Reveries of the Wild Woman: Primal Scenes
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    Rever­ies of the Wild Woman: Pri­mal Scenes
    Hélène Cixous; Beverley Bie Brahic, trans.
    Cover of Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Woman's War Against the Nazis
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    Michelan­ge­lo in Ravens­bruck: One Wom­an’s War Against the Nazis
    Countess Karolina Lanckoronska
    Cover of A Boy in Terezin: The Private Diary of Pavel Weiner, April 1944-April 1945
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    A Boy in Terezin: The Pri­vate Diary of Pavel Wein­er, April 1944-April 1945
    Pavel Weiner; Pavel Weiner and Karen Weiner, trans.; Deborah Dwork, intro.
    Cover of My Grandparents, My Parents and I: Jewish Art and Culture
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    My Grand­par­ents, My Par­ents and I: Jew­ish Art and Culture
    Edward van Voolen
    Cover of An Alphabetical Life
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    An Alpha­bet­i­cal Life
    Wendy Werris
    Cover of A Daughter of Two Mothers
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    A Daugh­ter of Two Mothers
    Miriam Cohen; Sandy Bloom, trans.; Chana D. Sklar, ed.
    Cover of Let Me Create a Paradise, God Said to Himself: A Journey of Conscience From Johannesburg to Jerusalem
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    Let Me Cre­ate a Par­adise, God Said to Him­self: A Jour­ney of Con­science From Johan­nes­burg to Jerusalem
    Hirsh Goodman
    Cover of The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman
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    The Grand Sur­prise: The Jour­nals of Leo Lerman
    Stephen Pascal, ed.
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    A Polit­i­cal Edu­ca­tion: Com­ing of Age in Paris and New York
    André Schiffrin
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    The Mis­tress’s Daughter
    A.M. Homes
    Cover of Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman
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    Bill the Boy Won­der: The Secret Co-Cre­ator of Batman
    Marc Tyler Nobleman
    Cover of Through the Eyes of a Survivor: A Living History of Nina Morecki From Pre-World War II Poland to Modern America
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    Through the Eyes of a Sur­vivor: A Liv­ing His­to­ry of Nina Morec­ki From Pre-World War II Poland to Mod­ern America
    Colette Waddell
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