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Autobiography & Memoir

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Out­sider in the Promised Land: An Iraqi Jew in Israel
Nissim Rejwan University of Texas Press
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Last Days in Baby­lon: The His­to­ry of a Fam­i­ly, The Sto­ry of a Nation
Marina Benjamin
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Sala’s Gift: My Moth­er’s Holo­caust Story
Ann Kirschn­er
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Auschwitz Report
Pri­mo Levi
Cover of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
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The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
Daniel Mendelsohn 
Cover of American Parent: My Surprising Adventures in Modern Babyland
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Amer­i­can Par­ent: My Sur­pris­ing Adven­tures in Mod­ern Babyland
Sam Apple
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Com­ing Togeth­er, Com­ing Apart: A Mem­oir of Heart­break and Promise in Israel
Daniel Gordis
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On The Road With Rab­bi Steinsaltz
Arthur Kurzweil
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Sur­prised by God: How I Learned to Stop Wor­ry­ing and Love Religion
Danya Rut­ten­berg
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Lone­ly Soldier
Adam Harmon
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Some­where in Germany
Stefanie Zweig; Marlies Comjean, trans.
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We Are On Our Own
Miri­am Katin
Cover of My Future is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants
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My Future is in Amer­i­ca: Auto­bi­ogra­phies of East­ern Euro­pean Jew­ish Immigrants
Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer, ed. and trans.
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The Last Eye­wit­ness­es: Chil­dren of the Holo­caust Speak: Vol. 2
Jakob Gutenbaum, Agnieszka Latala, eds.
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Pret­ty Is What Changes: Impos­si­ble Choic­es, The Breast Can­cer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny
Jessica Queller
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It Hap­pened in Italy: Untold Sto­ries of How the Peo­ple of Italy Defied the Hor­rors of the Holocaust
Elizabeth Bettina
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