Eyal Press

Eyal Press (born 1970) is an American author and journalist based in New York City.^[1] He is the author of three books and is a contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times, among other publications. Much of Press' writing and journalism focuses on topics of morality and social and economic inequality.^[2]

Eyal Press
Press in 2010
Born	1970 (age 54–55) Jerusalem
Alma mater	Brown University New York University

Early life and education

Eyal Press was born in Jerusalem in 1970.^[3] His father, Shalom, was a gynecologist and abortion provider born to a Russian Jewish family that had immigrated to Mandatory Palestine. His mother, Carla, was born in the Nazis' Yampol concentration camp ghetto during the Holocaust^[4][5] (located in Moldova/Transnistria).

In 1973, the family emigrated from Israel to Buffalo, New York for Shalom's obstetrics and gynecology residency.^[6] Eyal Press was raised in Buffalo.^[7]

Press received a Bachelor of Arts in history from Brown University in 1992. He later earned a Ph.D. from New York University.^[8][when?]

Works

Books

• Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict that Divided America, Macmillan, 2006, ISBN 978-0-312-42657-6^[9]
• Beautiful Souls: The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012, ISBN 978-0-8050-7731-5^[10][11]
• Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021, ISBN 978-0-374-71443-7^[12]

Articles

• "In Front of Their Faces: Does facial-recognition technology lead police to ignore contradictory evidence?", The New Yorker, 20 November 2023, pp. 20–26.