Eyal Press

Eyal Press (born 1970) is an American author and journalist based in New York City. 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.

Early life and education

Eyal Press was born in Jerusalem in 1970. 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 (located in Moldova/Transnistria).

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

Press received a Bachelor of Arts in history from Brown University in 1992. He later earned a Ph.D. from New York University.

Works

Books

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

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.