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Autobiography & Memoir

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Fifty-Sev­en Fri­days: Los­ing Our Daugh­ter, Find­ing Our Way
Myra Sack
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Tap Danc­ing on Ever­est: A Young Doc­tor’s Unlike­ly Adventure
Mimi Zie­man
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My Moth­er’s War: A Holo­caust Sur­vivor’s Trib­ute to an Extra­or­di­nary Woman
Michael Fryd
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Bad Jew: A Fam­i­ly’s Quest from the Min­sk Ghet­to to Netanyahu’s Israel
Piotr Smolar; Anthony Roberts, trans.
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The Klans­man­’s Son: My Jour­ney from White Nation­al­ism to Antiracism
Adri­anne Black
Cover of Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance
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Nev­er Again Will I Vis­it Auschwitz: A Graph­ic Fam­i­ly Mem­oir of Trau­ma & Inheritance
Ari Richter
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Death Trip: A Post-Holo­caust Psy­che­del­ic Memoir
Seth Lor­inczi
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Schlep­ping Across The Nile: Col­lect­ed Stories
Aaron Zevy
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Feh: A Memoir
Shalom Aus­lan­der
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The Girl Who Sang: A Holo­caust Mem­oir of Hope and Survival
Estelle Nadel, with Bethany Strout; Sammy Savos, illus.
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Near­ly Depart­ed: Adven­tures in Loss, Can­cer and Oth­er Inconveniences
Gila Pfef­fer
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Ire­na’s Gift: An Epic WWII Mem­oir of Sis­ters, Secrets, and Survival
Karen Kirsten
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Just City: Grow­ing Up on the Upper West Side When Hous­ing Was a Human Right
Jen­nifer Baum
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See­ing Through: A Chron­i­cle of Sex, Drugs, and Opera
Ricky Ian Gordon
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“Crunchy Chords”: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Ricky Ian Gordon

Bob Gold­farb
July 15, 2024
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They Were Good Ger­mans Once: A Mem­oir: My Jew­ish Émi­gré Family
Eve­lyn Toynton
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