Creator Bio
Joseph Berger
b. 1945
Russian-born Joseph Berger is a journalist and social commentator who grew up in New York City. He has written about education for the New York Times since 1984. Formerly a religion writer for Newsday, he explores issues of immigration and city life.
Content by Joseph Berger
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Displaced Persons: Growing Up American after the Holocaust
There was a rumpled old Polish man who boarded in the apartment of our building’s superintendent. With baggy pants, fraying suspenders, a wrinkled hat, and a wooden cane, he looked like the lovable…