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    Cover of There Was Night and There Was Morning: A Memoir of Trauma and Redemption
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    There Was Night and There Was Morn­ing: A Mem­oir of Trau­ma and Redemption
    Sara Sher­bill
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    Insti­ga­tor of Joy: Becom­ing my own fairy godmother
    Nan­cy C. Illman
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    Lit­tle Boy, I Know Your Name: A Sec­ond Gen­er­a­tion Mem­oir from the Inher­it­ed Holo­caust Trauma
    Mitchell Raff
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    Woman of Valor
    Lynne Golod­ner
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    My Last Inno­cent Year
    Daisy Alpert Florin
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    Betrayed: Child Sex Abuse in the Holocaust
    Bev­er­ley Chalmers
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    One-Legged Mon­goose: Secrets, Lega­cies, and Com­ing of Age in the 1950’s New York
    Marc J. Straus
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    Shad­ows of War / צללים של מלחמה 

    Dina Green­berg
    January 10, 2022
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    Cho­sen: A Mem­oir of Stolen Boyhood
    Stephen Mills
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    ‘Invis­i­ble Years’: Piec­ing Togeth­er My Fam­i­ly’s Sto­ry of Survival

    Daphne Geis­mar
    August 2, 2021
    Essay

    Sex­u­al Abuse in the Holocaust

    Bev­er­ley Chalmers
    July 31, 2020
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    Play­ing Dead: A Mem­oir of Ter­ror and Survival
    Monique Fai­son Ross
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    Like Father, Like Son

    Richard Michel­son
    February 22, 2017
    Essay

    Why Do Tal­ent­ed Peo­ple Do Bad Things?

    Ear­li­er this week, Drs. Michelle Fried­man and Rachel Yehu­da wrote about the Thanks­giv­ing con­cerns all rab­bis must address with their con­gre­gants and the back­sto­ry…
    Michelle Fried­man, Rachel Yehu­da
    November 28, 2016
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    Inter­view with Sarah Rothe, Direct Ser­vices Coor­di­na­tor at Shalom Bayit

    Leigh Stein is the author of the nov­el The Fall­back Plan, the poet­ry col­lec­tion Dis­patch from the Future, and a new mem­oir, Land of Enchant­ment, out this week from…
    Leigh Stein
    August 1, 2016
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    The Price of Truth: A True Sto­ry of Child Sex­u­al Abuse in the Ortho­dox Jew­ish World — and One Girl’s Courage to Sur­vive and Heal
    Genendy Rad­off

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