Gal Beckerman

Gal Beckerman is an American writer and senior editor at The Atlantic. He wrote articles on Ukraine-Russia conflict, social justice in America, and the 2022 attack on Salman Rushdie.[1] Previously, he was an editor for the New York Times Book Review.[2]

Gal Beckerman (2022) at the National Book Festival

Beckerman earned a Media Studies PhD from Columbia University with a 2021 thesis On the Incubation of Radical Ideas: A Communications History. His thesis advisors were Todd Gitlin and Michael Schudson.[3]

Beckerman, his wife and two daughters live in Brooklyn.

Works
  • When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2010. ISBN 9780618573097
  • The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas. Crown, New York, 2022. ISBN 9781524759186[4][5][6][7]

References
  1. Beckerman, Gal. "Gal Beckerman". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  2. "Gal Beckerman - The New York Times". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  3. Beckrrman, Gal (2021). On the Incubation of Radical Ideas: A Communications History. Academic Commons (Thesis). Columbia University. doi:10.7916/d8-3zdk-be61. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  4. "The Quiet Before by Gal Beckerman — private revolutions". Financial Times. 2022-02-09. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  5. "Before #MeToo, before school board meltdowns, most big movements start small. 'The Quiet Before' is about the whisper campaigns". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  6. Swaim, Barton (2022-02-04). "'The Quiet Before' Review: A Soft Start to Social Revolution". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  7. Croft, Ethan. "The Quiet Before by Gal Beckerman review — is social media the enemy of social justice?". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
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