Eyal Press
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Eyal Press (born 1970) is an American author and journalist based in New York City.[1] 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.[2]
Eyal Press was born in Jerusalem in 1970.[3] His father, Shalom, was a gynecologist and abortion provider born to a Russian Jewish family that had immigrated to Mandatory Palestine. His mother, Carla, was born in the Nazis' Yampol concentration camp ghetto during the Holocaust[4][5] (located in Moldova/Transnistria).
In 1973, the family emigrated from Israel to Buffalo, New York for Shalom's obstetrics and gynecology residency.[6] Eyal Press was raised in Buffalo.[7]
Press received a Bachelor of Arts in history from Brown University in 1992. He later earned a Ph.D. from New York University.[8][when?]
