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Autobiography & Memoir

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Non­fic­tion
Alli­ga­tor Candy
David Kushner
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Non­fic­tion
Mas­ter of Cer­e­monies: A Memoir
Joel Grey
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Non­fic­tion
Leav­ing Iran: Between Migra­tion and Exile
Farideh Goldin
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Fic­tion
The Night Tril­o­gy: Night, Dawn, Day
Elie Wiesel
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Non­fic­tion
I’m Sup­posed to Pro­tect You from All This
Nadja Spiegelman
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Non­fic­tion
Enchant­ed Air: Two Cul­tures, Two Wings: A Memoir
Margarita Engle; Edel Rodriguez, illus.
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Chil­dren’s
Lit­tle Amer­i­can Man: A Memoir
Lior Lampert
Essay

Break­ing the Self-Imposed Silence

Dorit Sas­son is the author of Acci­den­tal Sol­dier: A Mem­oir of Ser­vice in the Israel Defense Forces. She is guest blog­ging for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil all week as…
Dorit Sas­son
June 20, 2016
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Hot Dog Taste Test
Lisa Hanawalt
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Anoth­er Lit­tle Piece of My Heart: My Life of Rock and Rev­o­lu­tion in the ​‘60s
Richard Goldstein
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From Day to Day: One Man’s Diary of Sur­vival in Nazi Con­cen­tra­tion Camps
Odd Nansen; Timothy J. Boyce, ed.
Essay

Heir­looms from Hungary

Sophie Cook​’s fam­i­ly his­to­ry and child­hood expe­ri­ence of sur­viv­ing the Holo­caust in Hun­gary inform her first his­tor­i­cal nov­el, Anna & Eliz­a­beth. Sophie…
Sophie Cook
June 6, 2016
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Lov­ing and Leav­ing Washington
John Yochelson
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Find­ing Mr. Rightstein
Nancy Davidoff Kelton
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Girl: My Child­hood and the Sec­ond World War
Alona Frankel
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Treyf
Elis­sa Altman
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