![]() ![]() JSF’s attempts to connect to Louis Safran and research his past become a catalyst for his first attempt at a novel. ![]() Safran immigrated to this country after the war, but Foer never met him because Louis Safran died in 1954. Jewish Roots Grandfather: Louis Safran, was a Polish Jew who lived through the Holocaust and the extermination of his first wife and young daughter. Joshua Foer (freelance journalist and author of recent book, Moonwalking with Einstein, about memory) (Solomon) Jonathan and Joshua building a sukkha (sacred Jewish structure) in JSF’s backyard in Brooklyn.Wrote a book on soccer and globalization) Franklin Foer (former editor of TheNew Republic.Esther SafranFoer (president of a public-relations company)."My Life as a Dog", The New York Times (November 27, 2006) Op-ed piece."A Beginner's Guide to Hanukkah", The New York Times (December 22, 2005) Op-ed piece. ![]() ![]() "Here We Aren't, So Quickly" (The New Yorker, 2010)."Rhoda" (published in The Book of Other People, 2008)."Room After Room" (included in Granta’sBest of Young American Novelists 2,"Granta 97" published in 2007)."About the Typefaces Not Used in This Edition" (The Guardian, 2002).“A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease” (The New Yorker, 2002).Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005). ![]()
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