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    Autobiography & Memoir

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    Non­fic­tion
    Wid­ow-Wise
    Alyce Gross
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    Non­fic­tion
    Fam­i­ly His­to­ry of Fear
    Aga­ta Tuszynska
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    Non­fic­tion
    Liv­ing with a SEAL
    Jesse Itzler
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    Sad Is Not Bad
    Har­ri­et Vogel
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    Non­fic­tion
    Acci­den­tal Soldier
    Dorit Sas­son
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Rab­bi and Sen­a­tor Sleep Together
    Rabbi Steven and Senator Joyce Foster
    Essay

    Beau­ti­ful Because It Sim­ply Is

    Bar­bara Kreiger is the author of The Dead Sea and the Jor­dan Riv­er, a chron­i­cle of the nat­ur­al and human his­to­ry of two of the Mid­dle East’s most icon­ic bod­ies…
    Bar­bara Kreiger
    April 27, 2016
    Essay

    Dis­cov­er­ing the Dead Sea from a Dif­fer­ent, Not-So-Dis­tant Shore

    Bar­bara Kreiger is the author of The Dead Sea and the Jor­dan Riv­er, a chron­i­cle of the nat­ur­al and human his­to­ry of two of the Mid­dle East’s most icon­ic bod­ies…
    Bar­bara Kreiger
    April 25, 2016
    Cover of 1915 Diary of S. A. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front
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    1915 Diary of S. A. An-sky: A Russ­ian Jew­ish Writer at the East­ern Front
    S. A. An-sky; Polly Zavadivker, trans.
    Essay

    Set­ting a Sto­ry in the Shell of a Rust Belt Boomtown

    Ear­li­er this week, Kim Brooks divulged the lit­tle-known Amer­i­can his­to­ry of World War II before Pearl Har­bor, which inspired her nov­el The House­guest. Kim is blog­ging…
    Kim Brooks
    April 13, 2016
    Essay

    It Isn’t Often You Come Across an Eighth-Gen­er­a­tion Israeli Jew

    Sar­it Yishai-Levi is the author of four non-fic­tion books and the best­selling nov­el The Beau­ty Queen of Jerusalem. Sar­it is blog­ging here all week as part of the…
    Sar­it Yishai-Levi
    April 4, 2016
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    Meant to Be: A Memoir
    Rabbi Marvin Hier
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    Vladimir Jabotin­sky’s Sto­ry of My Life
    Vladimir Jabotinsky; Brain Horowitz and Leonid Katsis, eds.
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    Ketchup Is My Favorite Veg­etable: A Fam­i­ly Grows Up With Autism
    Liane Kupfer­berg Carter
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    Cast­ing Lots: Cre­at­ing a Fam­i­ly in a Beau­ti­ful, Bro­ken World
    Susan Sil­ver­man
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    But You Did Not Come Back
    Marceline Loridan-Ivens; Sandra Smith, trans.
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