Samuel G. Freedman

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Samuel G. Freedman is a journalist and currently a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has authored six nonfiction books, including Who She Was, a book about his mother's life as a teenager and young woman, and Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry. He has also won the National Jewish Book Award in 2000 in the Non-Fiction category for Jew vs. Jew, and The Inheritance was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize. He is also a columnist for The New York Times on education and religion.

Freedman grew up in Highland Park, New Jersey.[1]

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  1. ^ Groner, Jonathan. "This Is Not Your Father's World: An Interview with Samuel G. Freedman", Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine. Accessed April 16, 2008. "Freedman himself grew up in Highland Park, New Jersey in a family that was, in his words, 'totally secular.'"

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