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    Autobiography & Memoir

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    Mem­o­ries of Eden: A Jour­ney Through Jew­ish Baghdad
    Violette Shamash; Mira and Tony Roca, eds.
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    Wisen­heimer: A Child­hood Sub­ject to Debate
    Mark Oppenheimer
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    The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Fam­i­ly’s Cen­tu­ry of Art and Loss
    Edmund de Waal
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    How to Under­stand Israel in 60 Days or Less
    Sarah Glidden
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    Every­thing is Going to be Great: An Under­fund­ed and Over­ex­posed Euro­pean Grand Tour
    Rachel Shuk­ert
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    Noth­ing Like Sun­shine: A Sto­ry in the After­math of the MLK Assassination
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    Work­ing with Bern­stein: A Memoir
    Jack Gottlieb
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    Two Cents Plain: My Brook­lyn Boyhood
    Mar­tin Lemelman
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    How To Make Peace In The Mid­dle East In Six Months Or Less With­out Leav­ing Your Apartment
    Gregorey Levey
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    Make Me a Woman
    Vanessa Davis
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    My Race: A Jew­ish Girl Grow­ing up Under Apartheid in South Africa
    Lorraine Lotzof Abramson
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    Blows to the Head: How Box­ing Changed My Mind
    Binnie Klein
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    Life on Sandpaper
    Yoram Kaniuk; Anthony Berris, trans.
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    A Life in Motion: A Memoir
    Florence Howe
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    I’m Not Going Back: Wartime Mem­oir of a Child Evacuee
    Kitty Wintrob
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    Rev­o­lu­tion: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War
    Deb Olin Unferth
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