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Nonfiction Little Boy, I Know Your Name: A Second Generation Memoir from the Inherited Holocaust Trauma Mitchell Raff
Nonfiction There Was Night and There Was Morning: A Memoir of Trauma and Redemption Sara Sherbill
Nonfiction One-Legged Mongoose: Secrets, Legacies, and Coming of Age in the 1950’s New York Marc J. Straus
Essay ‘Invisible Years’: Piecing Together My Family’s Story of Survival Daphne Geismar August 2, 2021
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
Interview 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
Nonfiction 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