Sasha Abramsky | |
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Born | 4 April 1972 |
Nationality | American, British |
Alma mater | Balliol 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]
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.
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]
As of 2015, he lives in Sacramento, California with his wife Julie Sze, an American studies professor at University of California, Davis, [6] daughter, and son. [11]