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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
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    Out­wit­ting His­to­ry: The Amaz­ing Adven­tures of a Man Who Res­cued a Mil­lion Yid­dish Books
    Aaron Lan­sky
    Cover of The Diary of Petr Ginz 1941-1943
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    The Diary of Petr Ginz 1941 – 1943
    Chava Pressburger, ed; Elena Lappin, trans.; Jonathan Safran Foer, intro.
    Cover of The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi Who Saved Jews
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    The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi Who Saved Jews
    Michael Good
    Cover of Yiddishlands: A Memoir
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    Yid­dish­lands: A Memoir
    David G. Roskies
    Cover of Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania
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    Under a Red Sky: Mem­oir of a Child­hood in Com­mu­nist Romania
    Haya Leah Molnar
    Cover of Caesar's Hours: My Life in Comedy, With Love and Laughter
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    Cae­sar’s Hours: My Life in Com­e­dy, With Love and Laughter
    Sid Caesar with Eddy Friedfeld
    Cover of Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
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    Bad Moth­er: A Chron­i­cle of Mater­nal Crimes, Minor Calami­ties, and Occa­sion­al Moments of Grace
    Ayelet Wald­man
    Cover of Rage Against the Meshugenah: Why it Takes Balls to Go Nuts
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    Rage Against the Meshuge­nah: Why it Takes Balls to Go Nuts
    Danny Evans
    Cover of Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman Among Books
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    Hous­es of Study: A Jew­ish Woman Among Books
    Ilana M. Blumberg
    Cover of If a Place Can Make You Cry: Dispatches from an Anxious State
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    If a Place Can Make You Cry: Dis­patch­es from an Anx­ious State
    Daniel Gordis
    Cover of We All Wore Stars: Memories of Anne Frank from Her Classmates
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    We All Wore Stars: Mem­o­ries of Anne Frank from Her Classmates
    Theo Coster
    Cover of Waltzing with the Enemy: A Mother and Daughter Confront the Aftermath of the Holocaust
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    Waltz­ing with the Ene­my: A Moth­er and Daugh­ter Con­front the After­math of the Holocaust
    Rasia Kliot and Helen Mitsios
    Cover of A Physician Under the Nazis: Memoirs of Henry Glenwick
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    A Physi­cian Under the Nazis: Mem­oirs of Hen­ry Glenwick
    Henry Glenwick; David Glenwick, ed.; Thane Rosenbaum, fwd.
    Cover of The Words to Remember It: Memoirs of Child Holocaust Survivors
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    The Words to Remem­ber It: Mem­oirs of Child Holo­caust Survivors
    Sydney Child Holocaust Survivors Group
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    Wait­ing: Select­ed Nonfiction
    Elizabeth Swados
    Cover of Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice
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    Chas­ing Shad­ows: A Spe­cial Agen­t’s Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assas­sin to Justice
    Fred Burton and John Bruning
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