Joseph Berger

Joseph Berger (born January 17, 1945, in Lysva, Soviet Union ) is an American journalist, author, and speaker. He was a staff reporter and editor for The New York Times from 1984 to 2014 and has authored five books.

Early life and education Joseph Berger was born in Lysva, Russia, to Polish-Jewish parents who had fled their hometowns to escape the Nazis. Berger lived in several displaced persons camps in post-World War II Europe before immigrating to the United States in 1950 with his parents and younger brother. A sister was born in the U.S. His book Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust describes his upbringing as a refugee child of Yiddish-speaking parents. After high school he attended the City College of New York, graduating in 1966, and completed his M.A. in journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Berger joined the staff of The New York Times in 1984. They reside in Westchester County, where he is a member of a Reconstructionist synagogue.