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Autobiography & Memoir

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Replay: Mem­oir of an Uproot­ed Family
Jor­dan Mechner
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Cry for Me, Argenti­na: My Life As a Failed Child Star
Tama­ra Yajia
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Lotus Girl: My Life at the Cross­roads of Bud­dhism and America
Helen Tworkov
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Kiss­ing Girls on Shab­bat: A Memoir
Sara Glass
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My Hijack­ing: A Per­son­al His­to­ry of For­get­ting and Remembering
Martha Hodes
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Queer Jew­ish Sto­ries: The Mem­oirs That Inspired Me

Sara Glass
June 10, 2024
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“Leonard’s Sto­ry Is My Sto­ry Too”: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Adam Nimoy

Isado­ra Kianovsky 
June 3, 2024
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The Most Human: Rec­on­cil­ing With My Father Leonard Nimoy
Adam Nimoy
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The Ghost Tattoo
Tony Bernard
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Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man’s Tale of Depres­sion, Psy­chic Tor­ment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
Jer­ry Stahl
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Simona Zaret­sky
May 13, 2024
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Unex­pect­ed Pas­sages, 1940 – 41 
Rachel Scheer
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Excerpt: The For­bid­den Daughter

Zipo­ra Klein Jakob
April 28, 2024
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The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews: A Memoir
Chef Rossi
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My Life in Fragments
Zygmunt Bauman
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My Life in Recipes: Food, Fam­i­ly, and Memories
Joan Nathan
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