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Autobiography & Memoir

Cover of What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?: A Memoir of Jerusalem
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What Do You Buy the Chil­dren of the Ter­ror­ist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?: A Mem­oir of Jerusalem
David Har­ris-Ger­shon
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Life­Jour­ney Books Do-It-Your­self Mem­oir Workbook
Deborah Fineblum & Naomi Grossman
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The Good Girls Revolt
Lynn Povich
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Cross­ing Cairo: A Jew­ish Wom­an’s Encounter with Egypt
Ruth Sohn
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Girl with the Crooked Smile…Stuck in a Moment
Darah Zele­don
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Con­fes­sions of a Wor­ry­wart: Hus­bands, Lovers, Moth­ers, and Others
Susan Orlins
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Rock and Roll Stories
Lynn Gold­smith
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The Last Pilgrimage
Lin­da Daly
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Danc­ing with the Ene­my: My Fam­i­ly’s Holo­caust Secret
Paul Glaser
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An Amer­i­can Bride In Kab­ul: A Memoir
Phyl­lis Chesler
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Moth­er Daugh­ter Me
Katie Hafn­er
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Stand­ing Up
Mar­i­on Grodin
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Exo­dus to Shang­hai: Sto­ries of Escape from the Third Reich
Steve Hochstadt
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My Life in Jew­ish Renew­al: A Memoir
Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi with Edward Hoffman
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Trav­el­ing Heavy: A Mem­oir in between Journeys
Ruth Behar
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A For­got­ten Land: Grow­ing Up In The Jew­ish Pale, Based on the Rec­ol­lec­tions of Pearl Unikow Cooper
Lisa Cooper
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