Esther Safran Foer Explained

Esther Safran Foer (born 1946) is a writer and the former executive director of Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington, DC.

Early life

Esther Safran was born in Łódź, Poland to Louis and Ethel Safran, Holocaust survivors who met in 1945. She spent her early childhood in a displaced persons camp before moving with her family to the United States in 1949.[1] [2] The family later settled in Washington, DC. Esther's father committed suicide in 1954.[3] [4] [5]

Family

Safran Foer is married to Bert Foer, a lawyer and president of the American Antitrust Institute. They have three sons; novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, and journalists Franklin and Joshua Foer.[6]

Career

Foer worked as press secretary for presidential candidate George McGovern. She founded public-relations firm FM Strategic Communications in 2002 and served as executive director of Sixth & I Synagogue from 2007 to 2016.[7]

In 2008, The Forward recognized Foer as one of its Forward 50. Washingtonian included Foer in their 2015 list of The Most Powerful Women in Washington.[8]

In 2020, Foer published her memoir .[9] In it she describes how she discovered and explored the existence of her father's first wife and daughter, who were murdered in the Holocaust.[10]

References

  1. Book: Foer, Esther Safran . 3 . 2020 . I Want You to Know We're Still Here . . 978-0-525-57600-6 . Esther Safran Foer.
  2. Web site: I Want You To Know We're Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir: Publishers Weekly. Publishers Weekly. 2020-04-01.
  3. Web site: 'I Want You to Know We're Still Here' is a memoir of heartbreak and horror - The Boston Globe. BostonGlobe.com. en-US. 2020-04-01.
  4. Web site: Esther Safran Foer wants you to know she's still here. Melissa. Weiss. 2020-03-31. Jewish Insider. 2020-04-01.
  5. Web site: Author Discusses Her 'Post-Holocaust Memoir'. NPR.org. en. 2020-04-01.
  6. Web site: The Foer Family. 2006-12-18. Observer. en-US. 2020-04-01.
  7. Web site: Esther Foer Is Stepping Down From Sixth & I in September. 2016-07-07. Washingtonian. en-US. 2020-04-01.
  8. Web site: Board of Directors Jewish Women's Archive . unfit . https://web.archive.org/web/20200411140538/https://jwa.org/aboutjwa/whoweare/board . 2020-04-11 . 2020-04-01 . jwa.org.
  9. Book: Foer, Esther Safran . 2020 . I Want You to Know We're Still Here . . 978-0-525-57600-6 . Esther Safran Foer.
  10. Web site: Safran Foer matriarch joins author kids with her first book, on Holocaust roots. Joseph. Anne. www.timesofisrael.com. en-US. 2020-05-26.

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