Genre search:Biography & Memoir

Maimonides : the life and world of one of civilization's greatest minds

by Joel L. Kraemer
Paperback, 2010
Tags
Maimonides, Moses, 1138-1204, Rabbis--Egypt--Biography, Jewish philosophers--Egypt--Biography, Rabbis--Spain--Biography, Jewish scholars--Spain--Biography
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
296.172

The drowned and the saved

by Primo Levi
Paper Book, 1995
Collection
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Series
Auschwitz Trilogy (3)
Status
Available
Call number
940.5313 LEV

Escape from the ghetto : the breathtaking story of the Jewish boy who ran away from the Nazis

by John Carr
Paperback, 2021
Tags
Holocaust--Personal accounts, Holocaust survivors-Poland
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 CAR

Jerusalem : the biography

by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Hardcover, 2011
Collection
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Status
DISPLAY FOYER
Call number
956.944 MON

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 : an experiment in literary investigation I-II

by Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn
1974
Collection
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Series
The Gulag Archipelago (Volume 1, Parts I-II)
Status
Available
Call number
947 SOL

The night trilogy : Night. Dawn. The accident

by Elie Wiesel
Paperback, 1987
Tags
Holocaust--Personal accounts, Holocaust survivors -- Biography, Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Collection
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Series
The Night Trilogy (Omnibus 1-3)
Status
Available
Call number
843.914 WIE

Disraeli

by Andre Maurois
1927
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
920.71

Sleeping with the enemy : Coco Chanel, Nazi agent

by Hal Vaughan
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
Coco Chanel, Biography
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
746.92

If it's not impossible : the life of Sir Nicholas Winton : he saved 669 children from the Holocaust and 50 years later they discovered his identity.

by Barbara Winton
Paper Book, 2014
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 WIN

Hitler's pope : the secret history of Pius XII

by John Cornwell
Hardcover, 1999
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
282.092

Journal

by Hélène Berr
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
Biography, Holocaust--Personal accounts
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 BER

My life

by Golda Meir
Hardcover, 1975
Tags
Biography -- Jewish Women, Israel -- Biography
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
956.94 MEI

Auschwitz: a doctor's eyewitness account

by Miklós Nyiszli
Paperback, 1993
Tags
Auschwitz (Concentration camp), World War Two--Personal narratives, Holocaust
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
940.572 NYI

Rena's promise : a story of sisters in Auschwitz

by Rena Kornreich Gelissen
Paperback, 1995
Tags
Auschwitz (Concentration camp), Holocaust--Personal accounts
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Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 GEL

Balcony over Jerusalem : a Middle East memoir

by John Lyons
Paperback, 2018
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
070.92 LYO

The lady in gold : the extraordinary tale of Gustav Klimt's masterpiece portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

by Anne Marie O'Connor
Paper Book, 2015
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Status
Available
Call number
759.36

Notes on a century: reflections of a Middle East historian

by Bernard Lewis
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
Middle East--History, Middle East--Biography
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
956.0072 LEW

My promised land : the triumph and tragedy of Israel

by Ari Shavit
Paperback, 2014
Tags
Arab-Israeli conflict, Israel
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
956.054 SHA

Explaining Hitler : the search for the origins of his evil

by Ron Rosenbaum
Paper Book, 1998
Tags
Adolf Hitler, Nazism
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
943.086 ROS

The hidden life of Otto Frank

by Carol Ann Lee
Paperback, 2003
Collection
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Status
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Call number
940.5318 FRA

Searching for Schindler

by Thomas Keneally
Paperback, 2008
Tags
Authors -- Australia -- Biography
Collection
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Status
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Call number
940.5318 KEN

Great Jewish Women

by Elinor Slater
Hardcover, 2007
Collection
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Status
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Call number
R 920.72 SLA

Great Jewish women

by Elinor Slater
Paper Book, 1994
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Status
Available
Call number
920.72

Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City

by Adina Hoffman
Hardcover, 2016
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
956.94

Menachem Begin : a life

by Avi Shilon
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
Biography, Israel--Politics and Government
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
956.9405

Esther : the extraordinary true story of the First Fleet girl who became First Lady of the colony

by Jessica North
Paper Book, 2019
Tags
Abrahams, Esther, 1767-1846, Johnston, George, 1764-1823, Great Britain. Royal Navy. Fleet, First -- Biography, Women convicts -- New South Wales -- Biography, Ex-convicts -- New South Wales -- Biography, Women prisoners -- New South Wales -- Biography — 7 more, Prisoners -- New South Wales -- Biography, First Fleet, 1787-1788 -- Biography, Governors spouses -- New South Wales -- Biography, Jewish women -- Australia -- Biography, Convicts -- New South Wales -- Biography, Australia -- History -- 1788-1851
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
994.02

The global merchants : the enterprise and extravagance of the Sassoon dynasty

by Joseph Sassoon
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
Jews in India, International trade -- history
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Status
Available
Call number
382.0922 SAS

Hunting Eichmann : chasing down the world's most notorious Nazi

by Neal Bascomb
Hardcover, 2009
Collection
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Status
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Call number
943.086 BAS

X Troop : the secret Jewish commandos who helped defeat the Nazis

by Leah Garrett
Paper Book, 2021
Collection
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Status
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Call number
940.541241 GAR

After Auschwitz : a story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank

by Eva Schloss
Paperback, 2013
Collection
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Status
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Call number
940.5318 SCH

In my father's court

by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Paperback, 1980
Collection
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Status
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Call number
F SIN

Disraeli

by Robert Blake
Hardcover, 1966
Tags
Benjamin Disraeli, biography
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
942.081 BLA

1185 Park Avenue : a memoir

by Anne Roiphe
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Jews -- United States -- Biography
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
813.54 ROI

Good living street : the fortunes of my Viennese family

by Tim Bonyhady
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Jews -- Austria--Biography
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
709.2243 BON

The house of Rothschild. The world's banker, 1849-1998

by Niall Ferguson
Paperback, 2000
Tags
Banking -- History
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
332.1092

The Rothschilds : a family portrait

by Frederic Morton
Hardcover, 1962
Tags
Biography
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
929.2 ROT

Revenge: A Story of Hope

by Laura Blumenfeld
Paperback, 2003
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
364.15

Hitler's art thief : Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the looting of Europe's treasures

by Susan Ronald
Paperback, 2015
Tags
Art thefts--Europe--History--20th century, Art treasures in war--Europe--History--20th century
Collection
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Status
DISPLAY FOYER
Call number
709.2

Commandant of Auschwitz

by Rudolf Hoess
Paperback, 1975
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
364.151092

Death dealer : the memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz

by Rudolf Höss
Paperback, 1996
Tags
Holocaust--Personal accounts, Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
940.53 HOS

The girl in the red coat

by Roma Ligocka
Paperback, 2002
Tags
Holocaust--Personal accounts, Holocaust survivors-Poland
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
940.5318 LIG

Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal

by M. D. Rachel Naomi Remen
Paperback, 1996
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Status
Available
Call number
610.92

Stars of David : prominent Jews talk about being Jewish

by Abigail Pogrebin
Hardcover, 2005
Collection
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Status
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Call number
920/.0092924073B

Heroes : history's greatest men and women

by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Paperback, 2009
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
920.02

Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses

by Bruce Feiler
Paperback, 2005
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
915.604

Hitler : A study in tyranny

by Alan Bullock
1958
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
920.71

My German question : growing up in Nazi Berlin

by Peter Gay
Paper Book, 1998
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
943.1550 GAY

Moments of reprieve

by Primo Levi
Paperback, 1990
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
853.914

The dead still cry out : the story of a combat cameraman

by Lewis Helen
Paperback, 2018
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
920.71

In the name of sorrow and hope

by Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
Yitzhak Rabin, Israel -- Biography
Collection
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Status
Available
Call number
956.9405
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