Samuel Norich is the publisher of JewishDailyForward.com, The Forward, and The Forverts, America's most respected Jewish digital news source and weekly newspapers. From 1980 to 1992, he was Executive Director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the world's pre-eminent institution devoted to the documentation and study of the modern history and culture of East European and American Jewry. Mr. Norich has distinguished himself as an analyst of American Jewry's communal structures. He is the author of "What Will Bind Us Now? A Report on the Institutional Ties between Israel and American Jewry." Born in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany in 1947, the son of Polish Jews, Mr. Norich emigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1957 and was educated at Columbia University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the University of Wisconsin.
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