Sasha Abramsky

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Sasha Abramsky
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Sasha Abramsky, 2023
Born (1972-04-04) 4 April 1972 (age 53)
NationalityAmerican, British
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford (B.A., 1993)
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (M.A.)
Occupation(s)Journalist, author

Sasha Abramsky (born 4 April 1972) [1] is a British-born freelance journalist and author who now lives in the United States. His work has appeared in The Nation , The Atlantic Monthly , New York , The Village Voice , and Rolling Stone . [2] He is a senior fellow at the American liberal think tank Demos, [3] and a lecturer in the University of California, Davis's University Writing Program. [2]

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Biography

Abramsky was born in England to a Jewish family [4] and was raised in London, in what Debbie Arrington described as "an accomplished and bookish family". [5] He is the son of Jack Abramsky, a mathematician, [6] and the grandson of Chimen Abramsky, a professor of Jewish studies at University College London, who was himself the son of Yehezkel Abramsky, a prominent Orthodox rabbi. [7] He received a B.A. from Balliol College, Oxford in politics, philosophy and economics in 1993. He then traveled to the United States, where he earned a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. [1] [3] In 2000, he received a Crime and Communities Media Fellowship from the Open Society Foundations.

Bibliography

Books

Awards

In 2000, Abramsky received the James Aronson Award for his Atlantic Monthly article "When They Get Out". [8] In 2016, his memoir The House of Twenty Thousand Books, which describes the lives of his grandparents Chimen and Miriam Abramsky, received an honorable mention for that year's Sophie Brody Medal. [9] [10]

Personal life

As of 2023, he lives in San Diego, California with his wife Marissa Ventura , a Communications Strategist, writer, and editor at University of California, San Francisco. Sasha has a son and daughter from a previous marriage.

References

  1. 1 2 "Abramsky, Sasha 1972–". Contemporary Authors . 2009. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Sasha Abramsky". University of California, Davis . Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Sasha Abramsky". Demos . Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  4. ↑ "Sasha Abramsky". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  5. ↑ Arrington, Debbie (22 September 2017). "In his new book 'Jumping at Shadows,' Sasha Abramsky explores fear in American life, politics". The Sacramento Bee . ISSN   0890-5738 . Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  6. ↑ Miller, Robert Nagler (16 October 2015). "Writer's tribute to grandparents' world of 20,000 books". J. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  7. ↑ Abramsky, Sasha (27 August 2015). "How the Atheist Son of a Jewish Rabbi Created One of the Greatest Libraries of Socialist Literature". The Nation . ISSN   0027-8378 . Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  8. ↑ "77 North Washington Street". The Atlantic . 2000. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  9. ↑ "Book on 8-year-old Warsaw Ghetto boy wins Jewish literature medal". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 11 January 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  10. ↑ "'The House of Twenty Thousand Books' re-creates an intellectual milieu". The Washington Post . 7 October 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
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