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Autobiography & Memoir

Cover of The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid From Chicago Fights Hezbollah
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The 188th Cry­ba­by Brigade: A Skin­ny Jew­ish Kid From Chica­go Fights Hezbollah
Joel Chas­noff
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Cur­ricu­lum Vitae
Yoel Hoffmann; Peter Cole, trans.
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The Girls of Room 28: Friend­ship, Hope, and Sur­vival in Theresientstadt
Hanalore Brenner; John E. Woods and Shelley Frisch, trans.
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Eat­ing Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer
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The New Jew: An Unex­pect­ed Conversion
Sally Srok Friedes
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My Father’s Bonus March
Adam Langer
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Aaron’s Jour­ney: From Slave to Master
Howard Herskowitz
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I Choose Life: Two Linked Sto­ries of Holo­caust Sur­vival and Rebirth
Jerry L. Jennings and Sol and Goldie Finkelstein, with Joseph S. Finkelstein
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The Dev­il’s Work­shop: A Mem­oir of the Nazi Coun­ter­feit­ing Operation
Adolf Burger
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Annie’s Ghosts: A Jour­ney Into a Fam­i­ly Secret
Steve Luxenberg
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Sur­viv­ing
Akira Ohiso and Ellie Ohiso
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A Sense of Pur­pose: Recollection
Suzy Eban
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Devo­tion: A Memoir
Dani Shapiro
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Here, There Are No Sarahs
Sonia Shainwald Orbuch And Fred Rosenbaum
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Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, with David Ritz
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The Aris­to­crat: The Life and Lega­cy of Hil­lel Menashe Sutton
Abraham Sutton
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