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Autobiography & Memoir

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Dream Homes: From Cairo to Kat­ri­na, an Exile’s Journey
Joyce Zonana
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From Cous­cous to Kasha: Report­ing From the Field of Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty Work
Seymour Epstein
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An Amer­i­can in Hitler’s Berlin: Abra­ham Plotk­in’s Diary, 1932 – 33
Catherine Collomp and Bruno Groppo, eds. and intro.
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Spir­i­tu­al Envy: An Agnos­tic’s Quest
Michael Kras­ny
Cover of The Accidental Zionist: What a Priest, a Pornographer and a Wrestler Named Chainsaw Taught Me About Being Jewish, Saving the World, and Why Israel Matters to Both
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The Acci­den­tal Zion­ist: What a Priest, a Pornog­ra­ph­er and a Wrestler Named Chain­saw Taught Me About Being Jew­ish, Sav­ing the World, and Why Israel Mat­ters to Both
Ian Pear
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A Hid­den Life: A Mem­oir of August 1969
Johanna Reiss
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George Stein­er at the New Yorker
George Steiner; Robert Boyers, ed.
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Bend­ing Toward the Sun: A Moth­er and Daugh­ter Memoir
Leslie Gilbert-Lurie
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Clara’s War: One Girl’s Sto­ry of Survival
Clara Kramer and Stephen Glantz
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The Adven­tures of Can­cer Bitch
S.L. Wisenberg
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Good Liv­ing Street: Por­trait of a Patron Fam­i­ly, Vien­na 1900
Tim Bonyhady
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Meta­Maus: A Look Inside a Mod­ern Clas­sic, Maus
Art Spiegelman
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Tales of a The­atri­cal Guru
Danny Newman
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This Has Hap­pened: An Ital­ian Fam­i­ly in Auschwitz
Piera Sonnino
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A Fam­i­ly of Strangers
Deborah Tall
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Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilar­i­ous, Dis­turb­ing, Mar­velous, and Inspir­ing Things I Learned When I Read Every Sin­gle Word of the Bible
David Plotz
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