Sasha Abramsky

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]

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

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
  • Hard Time Blues: How Politics Built a Prison Nation. Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martins Press, January 2002 ISBN 0312268114
  • Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, And Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House. The New Press, April 2006 ISBN 978-1565849662
  • American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment. Beacon Press (MA), May 2007 ISBN 978-0807042236
  • Ill-equipped: U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness. Human Rights Watch, June 2007 ISBN 978-1564322906
  • Breadline USA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger and How to Fix It. Polipoint Press, June 2009 ISBN 978-0981709116
  • Inside Obama's Brain. Portfolio, December 2009 ISBN 978-1591843023
  • The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives. Nation Books, September 2013 ISBN 978-1568587264
  • The House of Twenty Thousand Books, a memoir of his grandfather, Chimen Abramsky. London : Halban, June 2014 ISBN 9781905559640
  • Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream, a study of irrational fear in the United States. Nation Books, September 2017 ISBN 978-1568585192

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 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]

References
  1. "Abramsky, Sasha 1972–". Contemporary Authors. 2009. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  2. "Sasha Abramsky". University of California, Davis. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  3. "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.
  11. "Bio". Sasha Abramsky Website. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
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