Shukman Family
Shukman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *David Shukman (born 1958), British journalist *Henry Shukman (born 1962), British poet and writer * Harold Shukman (1931–2012), British historian See also *Shulman Shulman is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname that literally means "shul- man". A shul is another name for a synagogue, a Jewish house of worship, and the name was usually given to the head of the synagogue or the synagogue's rabbi. It can also appear as ...

David Shukman
David Roderick Shukman (born 30 May 1958) is a British journalist, and the former science editor of BBC News. Early life Shukman was born in 1958 in St Pancras, London. He is of Jewish ancestry – his grandfather, whom he is named after, was part of the Jewish community who lived in Baranow, Congress Poland which was then part of the Russian Empire, before emigrating and settling in the United Kingdom. His father was Harold Shukman, a Russian scholar at St Antony's College, Oxford; his mother was Ann King-Farlow, also a Russian scholar, of writers such as Alexander Men (a Russian theologian). Shukman attended the Dragon School and Eton College, then earned a bachelor's degree in geography at Durham University in 1980. and was a member of Hatfield College. Career Shukman worked at the ''Coventry Evening Telegraph'' from 1980 to 1983 when he joined the BBC. He was a Northern Ireland reporter from 1985 to 1987, then the Defence Correspondent (TV) from 1987 to 1995. From th ...
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Henry Shukman
Henry Shukman (born 1962 in Oxford, Oxfordshire) is an English poet and writer. He was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford. His father was the historian Harold Shukman and his brother is the BBC News reporter David Shukman. He is of Jewish ancestry – his grandfather, David Shukman, was part of the Jewish community who lived in Baranow, Congress Poland which was then part of the Russian Empire, before emigrating and settling in the United Kingdom. In 2000 he won the Daily Telegraph Arvon Prize, and in 2003 his first poetry collection, ''In Dr No's Garden'', published by Cape, won the Jerwood Aldeburgh Poetry Prize. His book was also the Book of the Year in ''The Times'' and ''The Guardian'', and he was selected as a Next Generation Poet in 2004. His poems have appeared in ''The New Republic'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Times'', '' Daily Telegraph'', ''Independent on Sunday'', ''Times Literary Supplement'' and ''London Review of Books''. In 2013, he wrote a poetry collection ...
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Harold Shukman
Harold Shukman (23 March 1931 – 11 July 2012) was a British historian, specialising in the history of Russia. Shukman was born in London to a family of Jewish immigrants escaping from the Russian Empire. His father, David Shukman, whose first name he gave to his first born son David Shukman, was part of the Jewish community who lived in Baranow, Congress Poland, before emigrating and settling in the United Kingdom. After college and national service, he took the Russian course at the Joint Services School for Linguists, in Cambridge and Bodmin, Cornwall. Afterwards, he went on to study Russian and Serbo-Croat at the University of Nottingham, gaining a first-class degree. He received his PhD from Oxford University, his topic being the Jewish Labour Bund. Having completed his doctorate in 1960, he took up an academic career at Oxford where he eventually became the director of the Russian centre at St Antony's College. He retired in 1998. In addition to numerous academic works, ...
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