Jonathan Kaufman

Kaufman is the author of three books.

Broken Alliance: The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America[12] won the National Jewish Book Award.[13] It was hailed by African-American and white reviewers as gripping, insightful and fair and is still used widely in college classrooms.[14]

A Hole in the Heart of the World: Being Jewish in Eastern Europe[15] was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Reviews called it “deeply engrossing,”[16] and “beautifully written.”[17]

Kaufman has a third book set to be published by Viking in 2020 called "The Last Kings of Shanghai."[18]

• Masters: Regional Studies of East Asia, Harvard University
• Bachelors: English, Yale College

• Pulitzer Prize for Special Local Reporting, 1984, for a series in The Boston Globe on racism and job discrimination in Boston.[19]
• Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Local Reporting, 1985, for a series in The Boston Globe on neighborhood activists in Boston.[20]
• National Jewish Book Award for Broken Alliance, 1989.[21]
• National Headliner Award, 1997, for a series in The Wall Street Journal on the changing nature of work and worker's lives.[22]
• Unity in Media Award, 1999, for articles in the Wall Street Journal on the impact of incarceration on black families.[23]
• American Jewish Committee Present Tense Award for Best Book on Current Affairs for Broken Alliance, 1989.
• Finalist, National Jewish Book Award for A Hole in the Heart of the World, 1997.
• Columbia University School of Journalism School Award for Coverage of Race and Ethnicity, 2008, for a portfolio of stories on how race and gender have impacted the presidential primary races.
• Columbia University School of Journalism School Award for Coverage of Race and Ethnicity, 1999, for articles in the Wall Street Journal on the impact of incarceration on black families.
• Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, 2015, for a Bloomberg News series on corporate tax dodging.[24]
• Asia Society/Osborn Elliott Award for Coverage of Asia, 2015, for a Bloomberg series on companies in India killing villagers and others through pollution and environmental abuse.[25]
• Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Public Service, 2011, for a Bloomberg News series on financial abuses by for-profit colleges.[26]
• Overseas Press Club Award, 2011, for a Bloomberg Businessweek story on Chinese students gaming the SATs to gain admittance to American colleges.[27]
• Gerald Loeb Award, 2011, for a Bloomberg series on financial abuses by for-profit colleges.[28]
• George Polk Award, 2012, for a Bloomberg series on abuses in the student loan industry.[29]
• George Polk Award, 2011, for a Bloomberg series on financial abuses by for-profit colleges.[30]