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Autobiography & Memoir

Cover of And Yet I Still Have Dreams: A Story of a Certain Loneliness
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And Yet I Still Have Dreams: A Sto­ry of a Cer­tain Loneliness
Joanna Wiszniewicz; Regina Grol, trans.
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The Let­ters That Nev­er Came
Mauricio Rosencof; Louise B. Popkin, trans.; Introduction by Ilan Stavans
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Oil: Israel’s Covert Efforts to Secure Oil Supplies
Zvi Alexander
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We Jews and Blacks: Mem­oir With Poems
Willis Barn­stone
Cover of How the Left Lost Teen Spirit
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How the Left Lost Teen Spirit
Danny Goldberg
Cover of Danger on My Doorstep: The Anita Flora Powitzer Story
Chil­dren’s
Dan­ger on My Doorstep: The Ani­ta Flo­ra Pow­itzer Story
Linda Schubert; Mary Beatty-Brooks, illus.
Chil­dren’s
I Will Plant You Like a Lilac Tree: A Mem­oir of a Schindler’s List Survivor
Laura Hillman
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Body of Dimin­ish­ing Motion: Poems and a Memoir
Joan Seliger Sidney
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Jerusalem: Chron­i­cles from the Holy City
Guy Delisle
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Love in a World of Sor­row: A Teenage Girl’s Holo­caust Memoirs
Fanya Gottesfeld Heller
Cover of My Fathers' Houses: Memoir of a Family
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My Fathers’ Hous­es: Mem­oir of a Family
Steven V. Roberts
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With a Yel­low Star and a Red Cross: A Doc­tor in the Lodz Ghetto
Arnold Mostowicz; Antony Polonsky, fwd.; Henia and Nochem Reinhartz, trans.
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The Tiger in the Attic: Mem­o­ries of the Kinder­trans­port and Grow­ing Up English
Edith Milton
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On Aus­tri­an Soil: Teach­ing Those I Was Taught to Hate
Sondra Perl
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Clas­sic Feyn­man: All the Adven­tures of a Curi­ous Character
Richard P. Feynman; Ralph Leighton, ed.
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Black Sea­sons
Michal Glowinski; Marci Shore, trans.
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