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Nonfiction Spiritual Cross-Training: Searching through Silence, Stretch, and Song Benjamin Shalva
Interview Interview: Ian Buruma with Bob Goldfarb InTheir Promised Land, Ian Buruma tells the extraordinary story of his own grandparents: British Jews who were apart during the World Wars and stayed… Bob Goldfarb February 2, 2016
Nonfiction The Hands of Peace: A Holocaust Survivor’s Fight for Civil Rights in the American South Marione Ingram
Nonfiction Comin’ Right at Ya: How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country or the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel Ray Benson and David Menconi
Essay Shulem Deen’s Top 10 Rules for Memoir Writing Jewish Book Council was honored to present Shulem Deen, the author of the 2015 National Jewish Book Awards winner of the Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award for Contemporary… Shulem Deen January 14, 2016
Essay My Mom, a Character Judy Batalion is the author of White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess In Between. She is blogging here all week as part of the Visiting… Judy Batalion January 4, 2016
Nonfiction White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess In Between Judy Batalion
Nonfiction Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler’s Army Georg Rauch, Phyllis Rauch, trans.
Nonfiction One and the Same: My Life as an Identical Twin and What I’ve Learned About Everyone’s Struggle to Be Singular Abigail Pogrebin
Nonfiction The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes in My Life and Career as a Television Writer Rita Lakin
Nonfiction The Best Boy in the United States Of America: A Memoir of Blessings and Kisses Ron Wolfson
Excerpt A Purge to Preserve the Myth of Spotless Escape Excerpted from Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind by Sarah Wildman, now available in paperback from Riverhead Books.It was some years after his… Sarah Wildman October 13, 2015
