Sasha Abramsky


Sasha Abramsky is a British-born Jewish 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. He is a senior fellow at the American liberal think tank Demos, and a lecturer in the University of California, Davis's University Writing Program.

Biography

Abramsky was born in England to a Jewish family and raised in London, in what Debbie Arrington described as "an accomplished and bookish family". 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. In 2000, he received a Crime and Communities Media Fellowship from the Open Society Foundations. As of 2015, he lives in Sacramento, California with his wife, daughter, and son.

Publications

Books

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