Conversation Description
Our second Community Conversation features journalist, author, and speaker Joe Berger in conversation with Clyde Haberman. They will be discussing Berger’s new book on author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.
Through these thought-provoking dialogues, we aim to foster connections, celebrate diversity, and illuminate the stories that shape our neighborhood's and the city's tapestry. Be a part of this exciting journey as we delve into the stories that define our times and our city.
Speaker Bios
JOE BERGER was a New York Times reporter, columnist, and editor for over 30 years, writing about religion, education, and the colorful kaleidoscope that is New York City as well chronicling many of the events that have shaken Israel and the Middle East. In 2011, he was honored with the Peter Kihss Award for a distinguished career given by the Society of Silurians, the city’s oldest press club. He retired from The Times in December 2014 and two years later began working on a biography of Elie Wiesel that was published by Yale University Press in May 2023. Berger continues to contribute articles periodically to The Times and teaches urban affairs courses at the City University of New York’s Macaulay Honors College. He is the author of five books, including Displaced Persons: Growing Up American after the Holocaust, The Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim and their Battles with America, and The World in a City: Traveling the Globe through the Neighborhoods of the New New York.
CLYDE HABERMAN, after years at The New York Post, joined The New York Times in 1977 as an editor in the Week in Review section. He went on to become a Metro reporter, City Hall Bureau chief and, from 1982 to 1995, a foreign correspondent based successively in Tokyo, Rome and Jerusalem. Returning home, he wrote a twice-a-week column, NYC, from 1995 to 2011. In 2009, he was part of a Times team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News, for coverage of the prostitution scandal that led to Gov. Eliot Spitzer's resignation. In 2011, he started a new online column, The Day, following that with Breaking Bread, a series of interviews. In 2017 and 2018, he was on the Times editorial board and continues to write book reviews and obituaries for the newspaper. He also wrote The Times of the Seventies: The Culture, Politics, and Personalities That Shaped the Decade, a book published in 2013 by Black Dog & Leventhal.