Ronald Sanders (July 7, 1932 – January 11, 1991)"Finding Aid for Ronald Sanders papers, 1951-1994", from the New York Public Library; includes a detailed biographical sketch 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.
In 1960 he won a Fulbright Fellowship for research of French socialists and moved to live in Paris for this purpose. He took this opportunity to travel to the Soviet Union and for his first trip to Israel.
During 1966–1975 he was on the staff of the Midstream Magazine, being its editor-in-chief during 1973–1975. Sanders married Beverly Gingold on March 19, 1967. They had no children.
He was the first recipient of the B'nai B'rith Book Award, for his work The Downtown Jews."Issac Babel and Ronald Sanders to Be Honored for Literary Contributions", FEBRUARY 20, 1970
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
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