Eyal Press (born 1970) is an American author and journalist based in
New York City. He is the author of three books and is a contributor to ''
The New Yorker'' and ''
The New York Times,'' among other publications. Much of Press' writing and journalism focuses on topics of morality and social and economic inequality.
Early life and education
Eyal Press was born in
Jerusalem in 1970. His father, Shalom, was a gynecologist and abortion provider born to a
Russian Jewish
The history of the Jews in Russia and areas historically connected with it goes back at least 1,500 years. Jews in Russia have historically constituted a large religious and ethnic diaspora; the Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest pop ...
family that had immigrated to
Mandatory Palestine. His mother, Carla, was born in the Nazis'
Yampol concentration camp ghetto during the
Holocaust (located in
Moldova/
Transnistria).
In 1973, the family emigrated from Israel to
Buffalo, New York for Shalom's obstetrics and gynecology residency. Eyal Press was raised in Buffalo.
Press received a
Bachelor of Arts in history from
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
in 1992. He later earned a Ph.D. from
New York University.
Works
Books
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Articles
* "In Front of Their Faces: Does facial-recognition technology lead police to ignore contradictory evidence?", ''
The New Yorker'', 20 November 2023, pp. 20–26.
References
External links
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1970 births
Living people
21st-century American non-fiction writers
Press, Eyal
Brown University alumni
New York University alumni
The New Yorker people
Writers from Buffalo, New York