Sasha Abramsky

Sasha Abramsky (born 4 April 1972) is a British-born freelance journalist and author who now lives in the United States.

His work has appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, New York, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone.

He is a senior fellow at the American liberal think tank Demos, and a lecturer in the University of California, Davis's University Writing Program.

Abramsky was born in England to a Jewish family and was raised in London, in what Debbie Arrington described as "an accomplished and bookish family".

He is the son of Jack Abramsky, a mathematician, and the grandson of Chimen Abramsky, a professor of Jewish studies at University College London, who was himself the son of Yehezkel Abramsky, a prominent Orthodox rabbi.

He received a B.A. from Balliol College, Oxford in politics, philosophy and economics in 1993.

He then traveled to the United States, where he earned a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

In 2000, he received a Crime and Communities Media Fellowship from the Open Society Foundations.

In 2000, Abramsky received the James Aronson Award for his Atlantic Monthly article "When They Get Out".

As of 2015, he lives in Sacramento, California with his wife Julie Sze, an American studies professor at University of California, Davis, daughter, and son.

In 2016, his memoir The House of Twenty Thousand Books, which describes the lives of his grandparents Chimen and Miriam Abramsky, received an honorable mention for that year's Sophie Brody Medal.