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• Links in the Chassidic Legacy: Biographical Sketches that First Appeared in the Classic Columns of HaTamim, trans. by Shimon Neubort (HTML with commentary at chabad.org)
• The Golden Dynasty: The Lives and Times of the Rizhniner Rebbes, by Yizroel Friedman (frame-dependent HTML at nishmas.org)
• Branches of the Chassidic Menorah: Biographical Stories, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn
  • volume 1: HTML at chabad.org
  • volume 2: HTML at chabad.org
• The Making of Chassidim: A Letter Written by the Previous Lubavitcher, Rebbe Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, trans. by Shimon Neubort (HTML at chabad.org)

• To Know and To Care, by Eliyahu Touger and Malka Touger
  • volume 1: HTML at chabad.org
  • volume 2: HTML at chabad.org

• A Prince in Prison: The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe's Account of His Incarceration in Stalinist Russia in 1927: An Extract from Likkutei Dibburim, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, trans. by Uri Kaploun (HTML at chabad.org)

• The Maggid of Mezritch, by Yitzchak Dorfman (frame-dependent HTML at nishmas.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• I Will Write It in Their Hearts: A Treasure of Letters from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson: Selections from Ighos Kodesh: Volume I (only extant volume), by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and Eliyahu Touger (HTML at sichosinenglish.org)

• The Golden Mountain: Marvellous Tales of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem and of His Great-Grandson, Rabbi Nachman, Retold From Hebrew, Yiddish and German Sources (New York: Behrman House, c1932), by Meyer Levin, illust. by Marek Szwarc (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Maggid of Mezritch, by Yitzchak Dorfman (frame-dependent HTML at nishmas.org)

• A Prince in Prison: The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe's Account of His Incarceration in Stalinist Russia in 1927: An Extract from Likkutei Dibburim, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, trans. by Uri Kaploun (HTML at chabad.org)

• The Making of Chassidim: A Letter Written by the Previous Lubavitcher, Rebbe Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, trans. by Shimon Neubort (HTML at chabad.org)

• Attaining Sagacity: Reflections on Reaching the Age of Sixty, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson, trans. by Eliyahu Touger (HTML at chabad.org)
• The Ladder Up: Secret Steps to Jewish Happiness, by R. L. Kremnizer (HTML with commentary at chabad.org)
• The Tree of Life (Kuntres Etz HaChayim): A Classic Chassidic Treatise on the Mystic Core of Spiritual Vitality, by Shalom Dov Baer Schneersohn, trans. by Eliyahu Touger (HTML at sichosinenglish.org)
• In the Paths of Our Fathers: Insights into Pirkei Avos, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and Eliyahu Touger (HTML at sichosinenglish.org)
• Lessons in Tanya, by Shneur Zalman of Lyady, ed. by Uri Kaploun, trans. by Levy Wineberg and Sholom B. Wineberg, contrib. by Yosef Ṿaynberg (HTML with commentary at chabad.org)
• Links in the Chassidic Legacy: Biographical Sketches that First Appeared in the Classic Columns of HaTamim, trans. by Shimon Neubort (HTML with commentary at chabad.org)
• To Live and Live Again, by Nissan Dovid Dubov (HTML at chabad.org)
• Yalkut Bar Mitzvah: An Anthology of Laws and Customs of a Bar Mitzvah in the Chabad Tradition, by Nissan Dovid Dubov (HTML at chabad.org)
• An End to Evil (Reishis Goyim Amalek), by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, ed. by Uri Kaploun, trans. by Sholom B. Wineberg (HTML at sie.org)
• In the Garden of the Torah, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson (HTML at sichosinenglish.org)
• Timeless Patterns in Time, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and Eliyahu Touger (HTML at sichosinenglish.org)
• To Love a Fellow Jew: The Mitzvah of Ahavas Yisrael in Chassidic Thought, by Nissan Dovid Dubov (HTML at chabad.org)
• Beacons on the Talmud's Sea: Analyses of Passages From The Talmud And Issues In Halachah, Adapted From The Works of The Lubavitcher Rebbe, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson (HTML at chabad.org)
• Defiance and Devotion: Selected Chassidic Discourses Dating from the Arrest and Liberation of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, in 1927, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, ed. by Uri Kaploun, trans. by Eliyahu Touger (HTML at sichos-in-english.org)
• I Will Write It in Their Hearts: A Treasure of Letters from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson: Selections from Ighos Kodesh: Volume I (only extant volume), by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and Eliyahu Touger (HTML at sichosinenglish.org)
• Living with Moshiach: An Anthology of Brief Homilies on the Weekly Torah Readings and Festivals, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and Jacob Immanuel Schochet (HTML at chabad.org)
• A Partner in the Dynamic of Creation: Womanhood in the Teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson (HTML at sichosinenglish.org)
• To Know and To Care, by Eliyahu Touger and Malka Touger
  • volume 1: HTML at chabad.org
  • volume 2: HTML at chabad.org

• Stories as Equipment for Living: Last Talks and Tales of Barbara Myerhoff (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Barbara G. Myerhoff, ed. by Marc Kaminsky, Mark Weiss, and Deena Metzger, contrib. by Thomas R. Cole (page images at HathiTrust)

• Branches of the Chassidic Menorah: Biographical Stories, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn
  • volume 1: HTML at chabad.org
  • volume 2: HTML at chabad.org
• The Making of Chassidim: A Letter Written by the Previous Lubavitcher, Rebbe Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, trans. by Shimon Neubort (HTML at chabad.org)
• A Prince in Prison: The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe's Account of His Incarceration in Stalinist Russia in 1927: An Extract from Likkutei Dibburim, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, trans. by Uri Kaploun (HTML at chabad.org)

• Lessons in Tanya, by Shneur Zalman of Lyady, ed. by Uri Kaploun, trans. by Levy Wineberg and Sholom B. Wineberg, contrib. by Yosef Ṿaynberg (HTML with commentary at chabad.org)
• Anticipating the Redemption, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  • Volume 1: HTML at chabad.org
  • Volume 2: HTML at chabad.org
• Attaining Sagacity: Reflections on Reaching the Age of Sixty, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson, trans. by Eliyahu Touger (HTML at chabad.org)
• The Tree of Life (Kuntres Etz HaChayim): A Classic Chassidic Treatise on the Mystic Core of Spiritual Vitality, by Shalom Dov Baer Schneersohn, trans. by Eliyahu Touger (HTML at sichosinenglish.org)
• Defiance and Devotion: Selected Chassidic Discourses Dating from the Arrest and Liberation of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, in 1927, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, ed. by Uri Kaploun, trans. by Eliyahu Touger (HTML at sichos-in-english.org)
• Yalkut Bar Mitzvah: An Anthology of Laws and Customs of a Bar Mitzvah in the Chabad Tradition, by Nissan Dovid Dubov (HTML at chabad.org)
• I Will Write It in Their Hearts: A Treasure of Letters from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson: Selections from Ighos Kodesh: Volume I (only extant volume), by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and Eliyahu Touger (HTML at sichosinenglish.org)
• Living with Moshiach: An Anthology of Brief Homilies on the Weekly Torah Readings and Festivals, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and Jacob Immanuel Schochet (HTML at chabad.org)

• Branches of the Chassidic Menorah: Biographical Stories, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn
  • volume 1: HTML at chabad.org
  • volume 2: HTML at chabad.org
• The Golden Dynasty: The Lives and Times of the Rizhniner Rebbes, by Yizroel Friedman (frame-dependent HTML at nishmas.org)
• The Making of Chassidim: A Letter Written by the Previous Lubavitcher, Rebbe Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, trans. by Shimon Neubort (HTML at chabad.org)

• In the Garden of the Torah, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson (HTML at sichosinenglish.org)
• Proceeding Together, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  • Volume 1: HTML at sichosinenglish.org
  • Volume 2: HTML at sichosinenglish.org
  • Volume 3: HTML at sichosinenglish.org
• Timeless Patterns in Time, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson and Eliyahu Touger (HTML at sichosinenglish.org)

• From Plotzk to Boston (Boston: W. B. Clarke and Co., 1899), by Mary Antin, contrib. by Israel Zangwill (Gutenberg text)
• The Promised Land (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912), by Mary Antin
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images

• Letters From the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Helen Waldstein Wilkes (PDF files with commentary at AU Press)

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