An Evening with Author Gal Beckerman

Co-sponsored with Congregation Ahabat Sholom of Lynn, the Swampscott Public Library will be hosting an evening with Gal Beckerman, author of the award-winning book: “When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry”.  Gal Beckerman is the opinion editor at The Forward and was a longtime editor and staff writer at the Columbia Journalism Review and has also written for the New York Times, Boston Globe, and The Wall Street Journal. He was a Fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Berlin and the recipient of a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. His first book, “When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone”, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in September 2010. It was named was one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and the Washington Post, and received both the 2010 National Jewish Book Award and the 2012 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.