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Autobiography & Memoir

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Cross­ing the Bor­ders of Time: A True Sto­ry of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
Leslie Mait­land
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Rever­ies of the Wild Woman: Pri­mal Scenes
Hélène Cixous; Beverley Bie Brahic, trans.
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Jew­ish Journeys
Jeremy Leigh
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Michelan­ge­lo in Ravens­bruck: One Wom­an’s War Against the Nazis
Countess Karolina Lanckoronska
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A Boy in Terezin: The Pri­vate Diary of Pavel Wein­er, April 1944-April 1945
Pavel Weiner; Pavel Weiner and Karen Weiner, trans.; Deborah Dwork, intro.
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An Alpha­bet­i­cal Life
Wendy Werris
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My Grand­par­ents, My Par­ents and I: Jew­ish Art and Culture
Edward van Voolen
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Through the Eyes of a Sur­vivor: A Liv­ing His­to­ry of Nina Morec­ki From Pre-World War II Poland to Mod­ern America
Colette Waddell
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One Must Also Be Hungarian
Adam Biro; Catherine Tihanyi, trans.
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Let Me Cre­ate a Par­adise, God Said to Him­self: A Jour­ney of Con­science From Johan­nes­burg to Jerusalem
Hirsh Goodman
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A Daugh­ter of Two Mothers
Miriam Cohen; Sandy Bloom, trans.; Chana D. Sklar, ed.
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The Grand Sur­prise: The Jour­nals of Leo Lerman
Stephen Pascal, ed.
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A Polit­i­cal Edu­ca­tion: Com­ing of Age in Paris and New York
André Schiffrin
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The Mis­tress’s Daughter
A.M. Homes
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Bill the Boy Won­der: The Secret Co-Cre­ator of Batman
Marc Tyler Nobleman
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Man Seeks God: My Flir­ta­tions with the Divine
Eric Wein­er
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