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Israel Shenker


Israel Shenker, (Jan. 6, 1925 - June 9, 2007) was a reporter for Time Magazine and The New York Times, a prolific interviewer, and an author of numerous books about language, lexicography, and Jewish life.

Shenker was born in Philadelphia on Jan. 6, 1925. Shenker enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania for college but interrupted his studies to serve with the Army Air Corps in World War II. Following his military service, he returned to Penn and completed his bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1947. Shenker then studied briefly at the Sorbonne in Paris before embarking on his career as a journalist. In 1951 Shenker married Mary Sagman, with whom he had two children named Susie and Mark. Following his retirement from journalism, the couple moved to Mary Shenker's native Scotland, where he continued to write. After her death in 2005 he moved to Israel, where his daughter lived. He died in Israel in 2007.

Shenker spent nearly 20 years as a Europe-based correspondent for Time Magazine, including serving as the magazine's Moscow reporter until the U.S.S.R. expelled him in 1964. From 1968 to 1979, Shenker was a reporter on the metropolitan staff of The New York Times. His true strengths as a reporter were on display in his profiles and interviews of interesting or prominent individuals. Among the notable figures he interviewed and profiled over the years were Isaac Asimov, Jorge Luis Borges, Fernand Braudel, Noam Chomsky, M. C. Escher, Al Hirschfeld, John Kenneth Galbraith, Graham Greene, Alf Landon, Marcel Marceau, Groucho Marx, Vladimir Nabokov, S. J. Perelman, Pablo Picasso, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.


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