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===Prisoners===
===Prisoners===
Goldberg's book, ''Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide'' (New York: Knopf, 2006), describes his experiences in Israel working at the [[Ketziot]] military prison camp as well as his dialogue with Rafiq, a prisoner whom Goldberg would later befriend in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite news |last = Hammer |first = Joshua |title = Stuck in the Middle East With You: Lessons from an improbable friendship. |publisher = [[The Washington Monthly]] |date = [[2006-12]] |url = http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0612.hammer.html |accessdate = 2007-04-09}}. {{cite news |last = Watzman |first = Haim |title = The Hope: A Middle East correspondent's troubled friendship with the Palestinian he once kept locked up. |pages = p. BW06 |publisher = [[The Washington Post]] |date = [[2006-10-29]] |url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/26/AR2006102601331.html |accessdate = 2007-04-09}}</ref> Critics received the book positively; ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The Washington Post]]'', and ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'' all named it one of the best books of 2006.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/review/20061203notable-books.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/features/2006/holiday-guide/gifts/books_holiday_issue/index.html http://moreresults.factiva.com/results/index/index.aspx?ref=LATM000020061210e2ca0005z</ref>. The book was however judged 'wretched' for reviving 'pernicious myths and threadbare clichés' by the anti-Israel writer Norman Finkelstein in an extended review.<ref>'this is a quite wretched book which, for all its willingness to acknowledge ugly realities about Israel's occupation, albeit realities which can no longer be concealed, nonetheless reiterates and, because of the seeming openness, revivifies the old pernicious myths and threadbare clichés sustaining the occupation, presenting them in a form less detached from reality yet processed to make them assimilable by his liberal American Jewish audience. [[Norman Finkelstein]], ‘Jeffrey Goldberg's Prison’, [[Counterpunch]] October 6 / 7, 2007
Goldberg's book, ''Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide'' (New York: Knopf, 2006), describes his experiences in Israel working at the [[Ketziot]] military prison camp as well as his dialogue with Rafiq, a prisoner whom Goldberg would later befriend in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite news |last = Hammer |first = Joshua |title = Stuck in the Middle East With You: Lessons from an improbable friendship. |publisher = [[The Washington Monthly]] |date = [[2006-12]] |url = http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0612.hammer.html |accessdate = 2007-04-09}}. {{cite news |last = Watzman |first = Haim |title = The Hope: A Middle East correspondent's troubled friendship with the Palestinian he once kept locked up. |pages = p. BW06 |publisher = [[The Washington Post]] |date = [[2006-10-29]] |url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/26/AR2006102601331.html |accessdate = 2007-04-09}}</ref> Critics received the book positively; ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The Washington Post]]'', and ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'' all named it one of the best books of 2006.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/review/20061203notable-books.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/features/2006/holiday-guide/gifts/books_holiday_issue/index.html http://moreresults.factiva.com/results/index/index.aspx?ref=LATM000020061210e2ca0005z</ref>. The book was however judged 'wretched' for reviving 'pernicious myths and threadbare clichés' by American [[political scientist]] and author Dr. [[Norman Finkelstein]] in an extended review.<ref>'this is a quite wretched book which, for all its willingness to acknowledge ugly realities about Israel's occupation, albeit realities which can no longer be concealed, nonetheless reiterates and, because of the seeming openness, revivifies the old pernicious myths and threadbare clichés sustaining the occupation, presenting them in a form less detached from reality yet processed to make them assimilable by his liberal American Jewish audience. [[Norman Finkelstein]], ‘Jeffrey Goldberg's Prison’, [[Counterpunch]] October 6 / 7, 2007
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==References==
==References==

Revision as of 22:35, 2 December 2007

Jeffrey Mark Goldberg (born September, 1965) is an American journalist. He is an author and a staff writer for The Atlantic Monthly, having previously worked for The New Yorker. Goldberg has written extensively on foreign affairs, with a focus on the Middle East and Africa.[1]

Background

Goldberg was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Malverne, New York.[2] He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was editor-in-chief of The Daily Pennsylvanian.[3] He left college to move to Israel[4], where he served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a prison guard during the First Intifada.[5] He later returned to the United States to continue his journalism career, and now lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and three children.[6]

Journalism career

Goldberg began his career at The Washington Post, where he was a police reporter. While in Israel, he worked as a columnist for The Jerusalem Post, and upon his return to the United States served as the New York bureau chief of The Forward, a contributing editor at New York magazine, and a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine.[7]

The New Yorker

In October 2000, Goldberg joined The New Yorker.[8] Two of his articles for the magazine have won awards.

His 2002 article "The Great Terror"[9] won the Overseas Press Club's Joe & Laurie Dine Award for international human rights reporting.[10] The article describes Saddam Hussein's Al-Anfal Campaign, including his regime's use of poison gas at Halabja.[11] Critics claim the article boosted the Bush administration's argument for the invasion of Iraq by emphasizing Saddam Hussein's use of weapons of mass destruction.[12]

In 2003 Goldberg's two-part examination of Hezbollah, "In the Party of God," won the National Magazine Award for reporting.[13]

In 2007, he was hired by David G. Bradley to write for The Atlantic Monthly. Bradley had tried to convince Goldberg to come work for The Atlantic for nearly two years, and was finally successful after purchasing ponies for Goldberg's children.[14]

Prisoners

Goldberg's book, Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide (New York: Knopf, 2006), describes his experiences in Israel working at the Ketziot military prison camp as well as his dialogue with Rafiq, a prisoner whom Goldberg would later befriend in Washington, D.C.[15] Critics received the book positively; The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times all named it one of the best books of 2006.[16]. The book was however judged 'wretched' for reviving 'pernicious myths and threadbare clichés' by American political scientist and author Dr. Norman Finkelstein in an extended review.[17]

References

  1. ^ "Contributors". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
  2. ^ Goldberg, Jeffrey (2006). Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide. New York: Knopf. pp. p. 41. ISBN 0-375-41234-4. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)
  3. ^ Goldberg, Jeffrey (2006). Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide. New York: Knopf. pp. p. 66. ISBN 0-375-41234-4. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)
  4. ^ Goldberg, Jeffrey (2006). Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide. New York: Knopf. pp. p. 74. ISBN 0-375-41234-4. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)
  5. ^ Watzman, Haim (2006-10-29). "The Hope: A Middle East correspondent's troubled friendship with the Palestinian he once kept locked up". The Washington Post. pp. p. BW06. Retrieved 2007-04-09. {{cite news}}: |pages= has extra text (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ "Knopf Speakers Bureau: Jeffrey Goldberg". Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  7. ^ "Contributors". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2007-04-09.. "About Jeffrey Goldberg". Personal website. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
  8. ^ "Contributors". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
  9. ^ Goldberg, Jeffrey (2002-03-25). "The Great Terror". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2007-10-22. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ "Overseas Press Club Awards: 2002". The Overseas Press Club of America. Retrieved 2007-01-19..
  11. ^ Goldberg, Jeffrey (2002-03-25). "The Great Terror". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2007-10-22. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ Cockburn, Alexander. "CounterPunch Diary: Hacks and Heroes: Meet the New Yorker's Goldberg...." CounterPunch. February 28, 2003. Accessed January 22, 2007.
  13. ^ Jeffrey Goldberg, "In the Party of God, Part One,", The New Yorker October 14 and October 21, 2003, accessed January 22, 2007; "In the Party of God, Part Two," The New Yorker, October 28, 2003, accessed January 22, 2007; searchable database for National Magazine Awards on the website of the American Society of Magazine Editors (2003).
  14. ^ Howard Kurtz (2007-08-06). "The Atlantic's Owner Ponies Up". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-08-18.
  15. ^ Hammer, Joshua (2006-12). "Stuck in the Middle East With You: Lessons from an improbable friendship". The Washington Monthly. Retrieved 2007-04-09. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help). Watzman, Haim (2006-10-29). "The Hope: A Middle East correspondent's troubled friendship with the Palestinian he once kept locked up". The Washington Post. pp. p. BW06. Retrieved 2007-04-09. {{cite news}}: |pages= has extra text (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)
  16. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/review/20061203notable-books.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/features/2006/holiday-guide/gifts/books_holiday_issue/index.html http://moreresults.factiva.com/results/index/index.aspx?ref=LATM000020061210e2ca0005z
  17. ^ 'this is a quite wretched book which, for all its willingness to acknowledge ugly realities about Israel's occupation, albeit realities which can no longer be concealed, nonetheless reiterates and, because of the seeming openness, revivifies the old pernicious myths and threadbare clichés sustaining the occupation, presenting them in a form less detached from reality yet processed to make them assimilable by his liberal American Jewish audience. Norman Finkelstein, ‘Jeffrey Goldberg's Prison’, Counterpunch October 6 / 7, 2007 http://www.counterpunch.org/finkelstein10062007.html

Bibliography

Books by Jeffrey Goldberg
  • Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide. New York: Knopf, 2006. ISBN 0-375-41234-4 (10). ISBN 978-03754-1234-9 (13).
Reviews of publications by Jeffrey Goldberg

External links

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