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Esther Safran Foer (born 1946) is a writer and the former executive director of Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington, DC.
| This biographical article is written like a résumé .(November 2023) |
Esther Safran Foer (born 1946) is a writer and the former executive director of Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington, DC.
Esther Safran was born in Łódź, Poland to Louis and Ethel Safran, Holocaust survivors who met in 1945. She spent her early childhood in a displaced persons camp before moving with her family to the United States in 1949. [1] [2] The family later settled in Washington, DC. Esther's father committed suicide in 1954. [3] [4] [5]
Safran Foer is married to Bert Foer, a lawyer and president of the American Antitrust Institute. They have three sons; novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, and journalists Franklin and Joshua Foer. [4] [6]
Foer worked as press secretary for presidential candidate George McGovern. She founded public-relations firm FM Strategic Communications in 2002 and served as executive director of Sixth & I Synagogue from 2007 to 2016. [7]
In 2008, The Forward recognized Foer as one of its Forward 50. The Washingtonian included Foer in their 2015 list of The Most Powerful Women in Washington. [8]
In 2020, Foer published her memoir I Want You To Know We’re Still Here . [9] [3] In it she describes how she discovered and explored the existence of her father's first wife and daughter who were murdered in the Holocaust. [10]
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