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Judy Gumbo is the author of “Yippie Girl: Exploits in Protest and Defeating the FBI.” (Photo/Gary Goldberg)
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‘Yippie Girl’: In memoir, Judy Gumbo writes about 1960s Jewish activists, the Chicago 7 and defeating the FBI

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten July 19, 2022July 20, 2022
(Photo/Forward-Emma McIntyre-Getty)
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Mel Brooks’ memoir is 500 pages on his favorite subject — himself

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar and Forward November 30, 2021
Dave Pell calls himself "Managing Editor of the Internet." (Photo/Adam Moore)
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‘Please Scream’: New book revisits 2020’s collective nervous breakdown

by J. Staff November 2, 2021November 2, 2021
Eddie Jaku shows the concentration camp number tattoo on his left arm, July 2, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Louise Kennerley-The Sydney Morning Herald via Getty Images)
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Holocaust survivor who called himself ‘The Happiest Man on Earth’ dies at 101

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA October 13, 2021
The author (on his mother’s lap) with the family in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1948.
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New memoir: Grieving his mother while the towers were falling

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller September 9, 2021
Rabbi Sheldon Lewis in uniform in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
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Rabbi recounts heartrending year in Vietnam in new memoir

Alix Wall by Alix Wall August 26, 2021August 26, 2021
Rachel Michelberg is the author of “Crash: How I Became a Reluctant Caregiver.”
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Memoir: Faced with a lifetime of caregiving after husband’s accident, she said no

by Liz Harris June 23, 2021June 23, 2021
From the cover of “Concealed: Memoir of a Jewish-Iranian Daughter Caught Between the Chador and America” by Esther Amini.
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Family histories open new windows on historical events

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman February 16, 2021February 17, 2021
a black and white picture of a man and a woman sitting on a bench. she is holding flowers which have been artificially colored bright purple
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A harrowing tale of survival wrapped around a love story 

Laura Pall by Laura Paull December 15, 2020December 16, 2020
covers of "Golem Girl" and "A Place of Exodus"
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Gripping memoirs by writers who aren’t exactly famous

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman October 23, 2020October 28, 2020

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