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Autobiography & Memoir

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Good­bye, Tahrir Square: Com­ing of Age as a Jew of the Nile
Elio Zarmati
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So We Died: A Mem­oir of Life and Death in the Ghet­to of Šiau­li­ai, Lithuania
Levi Shalit; Ellen Cassedy, trans.
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What Remains: The Col­lect­ed Poems of Han­nah Arendt
Hannah Arendt; Genese Grill, trans.
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Milk­weed and Hon­ey Cake: A Mem­oir in Rit­u­al Moments
Wendy A. Horwitz
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Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holo­caust Mem­oir of a Moth­er and Daugh­ter’s Sur­vival In Jew­ish Ghet­tos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen
Renee Salt
Kate Thomp­son
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Your Roots Cast a Shad­ow: One Fam­i­ly’s Search Across His­to­ry for Belonging
Car­o­line Topperman
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Trea­sures, Ship­wrecks, and the Dawn of Red Sea Diving
Howard Rosen­stein
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Internee Num­ber 6
Maria Eisenstein; Will Schutt, trans.
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We Are Black Jews. Ethiopi­an Jew­ry and the Jour­ney to Equal­i­ty in Israel
Roni Fan­tanesh Malkai
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How to Share an Egg: A True Sto­ry of Hunger, Love, and Plenty
Bon­ny Reichert
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The Sur­vivor: How I Made it Through Six Con­cen­tra­tion Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter 
Josef Lewkow­icz
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The Shochet (Vol. 1): A Mem­oir of Jew­ish Life in Ukraine and Crimea
Pinkhes-Dov Gold­en­shteyn; Michoel Roten­feld, trans.
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The Shochet (Vol. 2): A Mem­oir of Jew­ish Life in Ukraine and Crimea
Pinkhes-Dov Gold­en­shteyn; Michoel Roten­feld, trans.
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Dirt­bag Queen
Andy Cor­ren
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Find­ing Home With­in: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Jen­nifer Lang

Diane Got­tlieb
December 30, 2024
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War­saw Testament
Samuel Kas­sow
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