His grandfather was born and raised in Leova, Bessarabia. Jeffrey Goldberg is the author of Prisoners: AStory of Friendship and Terror. Before joining The Atlantic in 2007, Goldberg was a Middle East correspondent and the Washington correspon- dent for The New Yorker. He was previously acorrespondent forThe New York Times Magazine and New York magazine. He has also written for the Jewish Daily Forward and was a columnist for The Jerusalem Post.Goldberg's book, Prisoners, was hailed as one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The Progressive, Washingtonian magazine, and Playboy. He received the 2003 National Magazine Award for Reporting for his coverage of Islamic terrorism and the 2005 Anti-Defamation League Daniel Pearl Prize. He is also the winner of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists prize for best international investigative journalist; the Overseas Press Club award for best human-rights reporting; and the Abraham Chan Prize in Jour- nalism. In 2001, Goldberg was appointed the Syrkin Fellow in Letters of the Jerusalem Foundation, and in 2002 he became a public-policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Michael Massing, an editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, called Goldberg "the most influential journalist/ blogger onmatters related to Israel".