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Past Event

Gershom Gorenberg: War of Shadows

Gershom Gorenberg joins us live from Jerusalem to discuss the topic of his latest book, War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East, with Robert Rosenthal, a former Middle East/Africa journalist and former editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer and managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.

At the center of Gorenberg's exciting intrigue—which has lessons for today's intelligence and cybersecurity—are the code breakers at Bletchley Park, who helped solve the Enigma cipher and foiled Rommel's bid to to conquer the Middle East.

Gorenberg, a columnist for The Washington Post, has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, Haaretz, and other media outlets. He teaches a workshop on writing history at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

MLF Organizer
Celia Menczel
Notes

MLF: Middle East

This is a free, online-only program; please pre-register to receive a link to the live-stream event.

Copies of Gorenberg's book, War of Shadows, can be purchased during registration (for shipment to domestic U.S. addresses only).

Main image by 8385/Pixabay.

January 27, 2021

United States

Speakers

Gershom Gorenberg

American-Israeli Journalist; Author, War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East

Robert Rosenthal

Board Member, Center for Investigative Reporting—Moderator