Ronald Sanders

Ronald Sanders (July 7, 1932 – January 11, 1991) was an American journalist and writer.

Sanders was born in Union City, New Jersey. His father was English-born musician George Harold Sanders, and mother Rose Rachlin was daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. He had a sister named Marilyn. The family did not practice any religious traditions, but when in the U.S. Army Sanders filled a form which required to indicate religious affiliation, Sanders chose Judaism.

Sanders died of liver cancer at age 58.

Books Socialist Thought: A Documentary History, 1964 Israel: A View from Masada, 1966 The Downtown Jews: Portraits of an Immigrant Generation, 1969 Reflections on a Teapot, 1973 Lost Tribes and Promised Lands; The Origins of American Racism, 1978 The Lower East Side, 1980 The Days Grow Short: The Life and Music of Kurt Weill, 1980 The High Walls of Jerusalem: A History of the Balfour Declaration and the Birth of the British Mandate for Palestine, 1984 Shores of Refuge: A Hundred Years of Jewish Emigration, 1988 The Americanization of Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1989