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Autobiography & Memoir

Cover of A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to be a Respectable Jewish Mom) By Her Bastard Son
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A Woman of Uncer­tain Char­ac­ter: The Amorous and Rad­i­cal Adven­tures of My Moth­er Jen­nie (Who Always Want­ed to be a Respectable Jew­ish Mom) By Her Bas­tard Son
Clancy Sigal
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Child of a Tur­bu­lent Century
Victor Erlich
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A Wid­ow’s Tale
Dina Bar-Tov
Cover of What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past
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What They Saved: Pieces of a Jew­ish Past
Nancy K. Miller
Cover of Lucky Bruce: A Literary Memoir
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Lucky Bruce: A Lit­er­ary Memoir
Bruce Jay Friedman
Cover of Invisible Sisters: A Memoir
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Invis­i­ble Sis­ters: A Memoir
Jessica Handler
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Pre­oc­cu­pied With My Father
Simon Schneiderman
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To Speak for the Silenced
Abraham Tracy
Cover of Awaiting a Miracle: The Holocaust Diaries of Morris Breitbart
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Await­ing a Mir­a­cle: The Holo­caust Diaries of Mor­ris Breitbart
Arnold and Charles Breitbart, eds.
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Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story
Ari Folman and David Polonsky
Cover of Shoshana: Memoirs of Shoshana Shoubin Cardin
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Shoshana: Mem­oirs of Shoshana Shoubin Cardin
Shoshana Shubin Cardin; Karen L. Falk, ed.
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Mem­o­ries of Jew­ish Life: From Italy to Jerusalem, 1918 – 1960
Augusto Segre; Steve Siporin, trans.
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Dork Whore
Iris Bahr
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Leave the Build­ing Quickly
Cynthia Kaplan
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The Year of Liv­ing Biblically
A.J. Jacobs
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The Vol­un­teer: A Cana­di­an’s Secret Life in the Mossad
Michael Ross; Jonathan Kay
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