Esther Safran Foer
Writer, executive director and public relations professional
About Esther Safran Foer
Born 1946. Esther Safran Foer is an American writer, executive director and public relations executive.
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. The family later settled in Washington, DC. Esther's father died by suicide in 1954.
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.
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.
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.
In 2020, Foer published her memoir .
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writer, executive director and public relations professional
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Esther Safran Foer was born in 1946 in Łódź.
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