Joshua Hammer
Joshua Ives Hammer is an American content creator and foreign freelance correspondent and bureau chief for Newsweek and in Europe. While at Newsweek - he was the Nairobi Bureau Chief from 1993 to 1996, the South American Bureau Chief from 1996–1997, the Los Angeles Bureau Chief from 1997–2001, the Berlin Bureau Chief from 2000–2001, the Jerusalem Bureau Chief His articles have appeared in such publications as The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and Smithsonian.Early life and education
Hammer was born to a Jewish family and attended the Horace Mann School in Riverdale section of The Bronx. He obtained his B.A in English Literature from Princeton University in 1979 where he was Cum Laude.Family
Hammer has three sons and currently resides with his family in Berlin, Germany.Personal
He and the photographer Gary Knight were kidnapped in the Gaza Strip in 2001.Books
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- A Season in Bethlehem: Unholy War in a Sacred Place, 2003.
- Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge the Path to World War II, 2006.
- The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, 2016.
- The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird, 2020.
Articles
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Critical studies and reviews of Hammer's work
;Chosen by God
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