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• Jewish Memories (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Lucette Valensi and Nathan Wachtel, trans. by Barbara Harshav (HTML at UC Press)

• We Survived: At Last I Speak (Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2013), by Léon Malmed (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)

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• Transactions of the Parisian Sanhedrim: Or, Acts of the Assembly of Israelitish Deputies of France and Italy, Convoked at Paris by an Imperial and Royal Decree (reprint of an 1807 London edition), ed. by Diogène Tama, contrib. by F. D. Kirwan (page images at Google)
• Le Juif: Le Judaïsme et la Judaisation des Peuples Chrétiens (in Frencgh; Paris: H. Plon, 1869), by R. Gougenot Des Mousseaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la Reforme Politique des Juifs (in French, with additions by the translator; Dessau: Librairie des Auteurs et des Artistes, 1782), by Christian Wilhelm von Dohm, trans. by Jean Bernoulli (page images at HathiTrust)

• We Survived: At Last I Speak (Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2013), by Léon Malmed (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)

• We Survived: At Last I Speak (Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2013), by Léon Malmed (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)

• We Survived: At Last I Speak (Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2013), by Léon Malmed (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)

• The Shaping of Jewish Identity in Nineteenth Century France (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), by Jay R. Berkovitz (multiple formats with commentary at wayne.edu)

• Medieval Jewry in Northern France: A Political and Social History (originally published 1973; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Robert Chazan (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Original Mr. Jacobs: A Startling Exposé (New York: Minerva Pub. Co., c1888), by T. T. Timayenis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Jews in France During World War II (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, c2001), by Ren´e Poznanski, trans. by Nathan Bracher (PDF at Brandeis)

• Jewish Memories (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Lucette Valensi and Nathan Wachtel, trans. by Barbara Harshav (HTML at UC Press)

• The Shaping of Jewish Identity in Nineteenth Century France (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), by Jay R. Berkovitz (multiple formats with commentary at wayne.edu)

• Jews in France During World War II (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, c2001), by Ren´e Poznanski, trans. by Nathan Bracher (PDF at Brandeis)

• 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)

• The Holocaust Chronicle (online edition; originally published 2000), by Marilyn J. Harran, Dieter Kuntz, Russel Lemmons, Robert Ashley Michael, Keith H. Pickus, and John K. Roth, contrib. by Abraham J. Edelheit (illustrated HTML at holocaustchronicle.org)

• Embracing the Other: Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism (New York and London: New York University Press, c1992), ed. by Pearl M. Oliner, Samuel P. Oliner, Lawrence Baron, Lawrence A. Blum, Dennis Krebs, and M. Zuzanna Smolenska (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• A Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz: History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2014), by Tuvia Friling, trans. by Haim Watzman (multiple formats at Brandeis)

• 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)

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

• Selma Metzger Winkler: Her Experience in Nazi Concentration Camp, by Martin A. Winkler (illustrated HTML at remember.org)

• Chachme AHW: Biographien und Grabsteiningschriften der Dajanim, Autoren und der Sonstigen Hervorragenden Männer der Drei Gemeinden Altona, Hamburg, Wandsbek (in Hebrew with German translation; Hamburg: Goldschmidt, 1908), by Eduard Duckesz, trans. by Salomon Goldschmidt
  • German pages first: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Hebrew pages first: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Chachme AHW: Biographien und Grabsteiningschriften der Dajanim, Autoren und der Sonstigen Hervorragenden Männer der Drei Gemeinden Altona, Hamburg, Wandsbek (in Hebrew with German translation; Hamburg: Goldschmidt, 1908), by Eduard Duckesz, trans. by Salomon Goldschmidt
  • German pages first: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Hebrew pages first: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Chachme AHW: Biographien und Grabsteiningschriften der Dajanim, Autoren und der Sonstigen Hervorragenden Männer der Drei Gemeinden Altona, Hamburg, Wandsbek (in Hebrew with German translation; Hamburg: Goldschmidt, 1908), by Eduard Duckesz, trans. by Salomon Goldschmidt
  • German pages first: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Hebrew pages first: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Samuel Montagu, First Baron Swaythling, Born December 21st, 1832, Died January 12th, 1911: A Character Sketch (London: Truslove and Hanson, ca. 1913), by Lilian Helen Montagu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Childhood in Times of War: An Autobiography (1995), by Andrew Shlomo Salamon (illustrated HTML at remember.org)

• A Boy in Hiding: Surviving the Nazis, Amsterdam, 1940-1945 (second edition; Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2016), by Stan Rubens, contrib. by Ronny Rubens (PDF at unl.edu)

• History of Brooklyn Jewry (Brooklyn, NY: Scheba Pub. Co., c1937), by Samuel P. Abelow (page images at HathiTrust)

• Out of the Shadow (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1918), by Rose Cohen, illust. by Walter Jack Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Someone is Watching Over Me: A Memoir, by Florence Mayer Lieblich (illustrated HTML at remember.org)

• Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c1999), by Naomi W. Cohen (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)
• Distinguished Jews of America (2 volumes, with slightly different subtitles and publisher locations; 1917-1918), ed. by Jacob Pfeffer, contrib. by Albert M. Friedenberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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
• Reminiscences (Cincinnati: Leo Wise and Co., 1901), by Isaac Mayer Wise, ed. by David Philipson (PDF at americanjewisharchives.org)

• Annales des Professeurs des Académies et Universités Alsaciennes, 1523-1871 (in French; Nancy: Impr. Berger-Levrault et cie, 1892), by Oscar Berger-Levrault
  • page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Rough in Brutal Print: The Legal Sources of Browning's Red Cotton Night-Cap Country (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by Mark Siegchrist (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Autobiography of Guibert, Abbot of Nogentsous-Coucy, by Guibert of Nogent, trans. by C. C. Swinton Bland (HTML at Fordham)

• My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt (1907 translation), by Sarah Bernhardt (Gutenberg text)

• Flying for France, With the American Escadrille at Verdun (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and company, 1917), by James R. McConnell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Flying for France, With the American Escadrille at Verdun, by James R. McConnell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Historia Calamitatum: The Story of My Misfortunes, by Peter Abelard, trans. by Henry Adams Bellows (HTML at Fordham)

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