Batya Ungar-Sargon

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Batya Ungar-Sargon is an American journalist and author. Ungar-Sargon is the deputy opinion editor of Newsweek [1] and the former opinion editor of The Forward . [2] [3] She is the author of two books, the most recent of which is Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women, which discusses the challenges faced by the American working class and the gap between them and the elite class.

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Education

Ungar-Sargon holds a 2004 bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago (AB) in English and completed her PhD in 2013 at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation, entitled Coercive Pleasures: The Force and Form of the Novel 1719-1740, addresses, among other elements, how rape and colonialism figure in the pleasures of modern English fiction. [4]

Career

Ungar-Sargon began her career as a journalist and news analyst. She reported on the rights of undocumented immigrants as well as liberal voices on Israel and the American Jewish community. [5] [6] In 2019 Ungar-Sargon articulated the importance of maintaining an American Jewish identity apart from Israeli politics, but rather one which embraces the values of civil and minority rights. [7] She was also a managing editor at the wine and spirits media outlet VinePair. [8]

In 2017 Ungar-Sargon became the opinion editor at The Forward. In this role she was criticized by some on the left for allegations of weaponizing claims of antisemitism and right-wing, pro-Israel bias, and publishing "deeply harmful perspectives." [9] [10]

She has written for The Washington Post , the Los Angeles Times , The New York Times , Foreign Policy , The Daily Beast , The New York Review of Books , and The Free Press . [11] [12] [13]

In 2020, Ungar-Sargon was selected for the 2021 ADL and Aspen Institute Civil Society Fellowship. [14]

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References

  1. ↑ "Batya Ungar-Sargon | AJC". American Jewish Committee . 2021-08-25. Retrieved 2024-05-24.
  2. ↑ "Batya Ungar-Sargon", Encounter Books
  3. ↑ "Batya Ungar-Sargon on Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy", Washington Journal, October 24, 2021
  4. ↑ Ungar-Sargon, Batya. "Coercive Pleasures: The Force and Form of the Novel 1719-1740".
  5. ↑ "Immigrants' Fate Depends on Access to Lawyers". The Brian Lehrer Show. December 28, 2015.
  6. ↑ "How the Israel Lobby Captured Hillel". Foreign Policy. November 23, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Across the Divide: Understanding the Generational Gap". YouTube. 2019.
  8. ↑ "About Batya Ungar-Sargon".
  9. ↑ Zonszein, Mairav. "What happened to The Forward?". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
  10. ↑ Burton, Nylah (2019-05-19). "The Forward's "Both Sides" Approach Has Failed". Jewish Currents . Retrieved 2024-05-20.
  11. ↑ "Batya Ungar-Sargon". The Daily Beast. 2020-03-22. Retrieved 2024-05-24.
  12. ↑ "Batya Ungar-Sargon", The New York Review of Books
  13. ↑ "Batya Ungar-Sargon". The Free Press . Retrieved 2024-07-12.
  14. ↑ "The Forward's Batya Ungar-Sargon chosen for ADL and Aspen Institute Civil Society Fellowship". The Forward. November 19, 2020.
  15. ↑ Stengel, Richard (2023-10-07). "Press Gangs: Four recent books wrangle with threats to — and from — the American news media". The New York Times . Retrieved 2024-05-24.
  16. ↑ Klein, Amy (2024-04-13). "In her new book, Batya Ungar-Sargon speaks on why Jews need to rethink their alliances". The Jerusalem Post . Retrieved 2024-05-24.
  17. ↑ Renn, Aaron M. (2024-05-14). "Review of "Second Class" by Batya Ungar-Sargon". City Journal . Retrieved 2024-05-24.
  18. ↑ Bates, Suzanne (2024-05-18). "Wondering why Trump won? Here's what you don't know about Americans in the middle". Deseret News .


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