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• 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)

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• The Second Babylonian Captivity: The Fate of the Jews in Eastern Europe Since 1941 (English translation of "Die Zweite Babylonische Gefangenschaft"; c1990), by Steffen Werner (HTML at vho.org)
• The Jews and Other Minor Nationalities Under the Soviets (New York: Vanguard Press, c1928), by Avrahm Yarmolinsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jewish Autonomous Region (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1939), by David Bergelson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Soviet Jewry in the Decisive Decade, 1971-1980 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1984), ed. by Robert Owen Freedman, contrib. by Jerome M. Gilison, Jerry Goodman, William Korey, Theodore H. Friedgut, Fabian Kolker, Zvi Y. Gitelman, Steve Feinstein, and Ilya Levkov (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Second Exodus: The American Movement to Free Soviet Jews (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c1999), ed. by Murray Friedman and Albert D. Chernin (PDF at Brandeis)

• 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)

• A Second Exodus: The American Movement to Free Soviet Jews (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c1999), ed. by Murray Friedman and Albert D. Chernin (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

• 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)

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

• 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)

• Geschichte der Juden in Ungarisch-Brod (in German; Vienna: M. Waizner und Sohn, 1905), by Adolf Frankl-Grün
  • page images in Germany
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• 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)

• 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)

• Sakharov: A Biography (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, c2002), by Richard Lourie (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

• Doklad na Zakrytom Zasedanii XX S'ezda KPSS: o Kulte Lichnosti i Ego Posledstviiakh (in Russian; this edition ca. 1959), by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Sakharov: A Biography (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, c2002), by Richard Lourie (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

• Sakharov: A Biography (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, c2002), by Richard Lourie (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

• Sakharov: A Biography (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, c2002), by Richard Lourie (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)
• The Accused (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951), by Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski, trans. by Edward Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)

• 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)

• N. Lenin: His Life and Work (Toronto: One Big Union, ca. 1918), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev (PDF at flvc.org)
• Nicolai Lenin: His Life and Work (Cleveland: Toiler Pub. Assoc., ca. 1918), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Nicolai Lenin: His Life and Work (London: British socialist party, ca. 1918), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nicolai Lenin: His Life and Work (London: Communist Party of Great Britain, 1920), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Zyciorys i Dzialanosc Mikolaja Lenina (Lenin biography translated into Polish; Chicago: Workers Party of America, Polish Section, 1924), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev (multiple formats at archive.org)
• My Life, by Leon Trotsky (HTML at marxists.org)

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