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Autobiography & Memoir

Cover of Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible
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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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My Jesus Year: A Rab­bi’s Son Wan­ders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith
Benyamin Cohen
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The Ethiopi­an Jews of Israel: Per­son­al Sto­ries of Life in the Promise Land
Len Lyons
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My Father’s Par­adise: A Son’s Search for his Jew­ish Past in Kur­dish Iraq
Ariel Sabar
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Life of the Par­ty: A Polit­i­cal Press Tart Bares All
Lisa Baron
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I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doc­tor’s Last Sac­ri­fice on the Road to Peace
Izzeldin Abuelaish
Non­fic­tion
The Mem­o­ry Palace
Mira Bartok
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Rachel in the World
Jane Bernstein
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Out­wit­ting His­to­ry: The Amaz­ing Adven­tures of a Man Who Res­cued a Mil­lion Yid­dish Books
Aaron Lan­sky
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The Diary of Petr Ginz 1941 – 1943
Chava Pressburger, ed; Elena Lappin, trans.; Jonathan Safran Foer, intro.
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The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi Who Saved Jews
Michael Good
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10 British Pris­on­ers of War Saved My Life
Hannah Rigler
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Rage Against the Meshuge­nah: Why it Takes Balls to Go Nuts
Danny Evans
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Yid­dish­lands: A Memoir
David G. Roskies
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Under a Red Sky: Mem­oir of a Child­hood in Com­mu­nist Romania
Haya Leah Molnar
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Cae­sar’s Hours: My Life in Com­e­dy, With Love and Laughter
Sid Caesar with Eddy Friedfeld
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