Michael Goldfarb (born September 20, 1950) is an American author, journalist, and broadcaster based in London since 1985.
Throughout this period he worked with the BBC and in 1994 won British radio's highest honor, the Sony Award, for his essays on the American Midwest, titled Homeward Bound.
In 1999, he was a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.
[4] In 2009, Goldfarb published his next book: Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews From the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance.
It is a popular history of how Jews and European society were changed by the opening of the ghettos during the era of Jewish emancipation, which began during the French Revolution.