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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of The Year of Living Biblically
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    The Year of Liv­ing Biblically
    A.J. Jacobs
    Cover of The Volunteer: A Canadian's Secret Life in the Mossad
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    The Vol­un­teer: A Cana­di­an’s Secret Life in the Mossad
    Michael Ross; Jonathan Kay
    Cover of Witness
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    Wit­ness
    Ruth Gruber; Richard Holbrooke, fwd.
    Cover of The Heavens are Empty: Discovering the Lost Town of Trochenbrod
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    The Heav­ens are Emp­ty: Dis­cov­er­ing the Lost Town of Trochenbrod
    Avrom Bendavid-Val; Jonathan Safran Foer, preface
    Cover of An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba
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    An Island Called Home: Return­ing to Jew­ish Cuba
    Ruth Behar
    Cover of Inheriting the Holocaust: A Second Generation Memoir
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    Inher­it­ing the Holo­caust: A Sec­ond Gen­er­a­tion Memoir
    Paula S. Fass
    Cover of Dream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina, an Exile's Journey
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    Dream Homes: From Cairo to Kat­ri­na, an Exile’s Journey
    Joyce Zonana
    Cover of Crossing the River
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    Cross­ing the River
    Shalom Eilati, Vern Lenz, trans.
    Cover of Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest
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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
    Cover of A Hidden Life: A Memoir of August 1969
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    A Hid­den Life: A Mem­oir of August 1969
    Johanna Reiss
    Cover of George Steiner at the New Yorker
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    George Stein­er at the New Yorker
    George Steiner; Robert Boyers, ed.
    Cover of From Couscous to Kasha: Reporting From the Field of Jewish Community Work
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    From Cous­cous to Kasha: Report­ing From the Field of Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty Work
    Seymour Epstein
    Cover of An American in Hitler's Berlin: Abraham Plotkin's Diary, 1932–33
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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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    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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