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    Autobiography & Memoir

    Cover of Most of Me: Surviving My Medical Meltdown
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    Most of Me: Sur­viv­ing My Med­ical Meltdown
    Robyn Michele Levy
    Cover of The Scattered Tribe: Traveling the Diaspora from Cuba to India to Tahiti & Beyond
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    The Scat­tered Tribe: Trav­el­ing the Dias­po­ra from Cuba to India to Tahi­ti & Beyond
    Ben G. Frank
    Cover of Where You Left Me
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    Where You Left Me
    Jennifer Gardner Trulson
    Cover of The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood
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    The Mas­cot: Unrav­el­ing the Mys­tery of My Jew­ish Father’s Nazi Boyhood
    Mark Kurzem
    Cover of Only As Good As Your Word: Writing Lessons From My Favorite Literary Gurus
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    Only As Good As Your Word: Writ­ing Lessons From My Favorite Lit­er­ary Gurus
    Susan Shapiro
    Cover of Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Summer on the Lower East Side
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    Morn­ings at the Stan­ton Street Shul: A Sum­mer on the Low­er East Side
    Jonathan Boyarin
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    A Schol­ar’s Tale: Intel­lec­tu­al Jour­ney of a Dis­placed Child of Europe
    Geoffrey Hartman
    Cover of Stop Forgetting to Remember: The Autobiography of Walter Kurtz
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    Stop For­get­ting to Remem­ber: The Auto­bi­og­ra­phy of Wal­ter Kurtz
    Peter Kuper
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    The Life of the Skies
    Jonathan Rosen
    Cover of The Koch Papers: My Fight Against Anti-Semitism
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    The Koch Papers: My Fight Against Anti-Semitism
    Edward I. Koch with Rafael Medoff
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    The Rab­bi’s Daughter
    Reva Mann
    Cover of Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration
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    Wait­ing for Amer­i­ca: A Sto­ry of Emigration
    Max­im D. Shrayer
    Cover of Rather Laugh Than Cry: Stories From a Hassidic Household
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    Rather Laugh Than Cry: Sto­ries From a Has­sidic Household
    Malka Zipora
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    The Com­man­dant
    Rudolph Hoess; Jurg Amann, ed.; Ian Buruma aftwd.
    Cover of Farewell, Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad
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    Farewell, Baby­lon: Com­ing of Age in Jew­ish Baghdad
    Naim Kattan; Sheila Fischman, trans.
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    The Hunger Artist: A Sub­ur­ban Childhood
    Joanne Jacobson
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