Yasha Levine
Levine in Seattle in 2018
Born (1981-02-22) February 22, 1981 (age 42)
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian American
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley[1]
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • Reporter
  • Author
SpouseEvgenia Kovda[2]
Children1[3]
Parents
  • Boris Levine[4] (father)
  • Nellie Levine[5] (mother)
Websiteyasha.substack.com

Yasha Levine (February 22, 1981)[6][7] is a Russian-American investigative journalist, author and reporter. Levine, who was born in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, was raised in San Francisco, California.[8][9]

Levine's family emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1989 when Levine was 8-years-old,[10][4] first living in a Gresten, Austria refugee camp before living in Castelfusano, Italy (near Ostia, Rome) for five months.[5] In 1990, Levine and his family left Italy for New York.[10] Levine has a brother Eli.[11]

He is a former editor of Moscow-based satirical newspaper The eXile.[12][13] He has written the book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet which was published in 2018.[14] The New Yorker reviewed Surveillance Valley positively describing it as "forceful" and "salutary".[15] Levine's other books include A Journey Through California's Oligarch Valley, The Koch Brothers: A Short History, and The Corruption of Malcolm Gladwell.[16] Levine was previously a correspondent at PandoDaily.[17] He has also written for Wired, The Nation, Slate, TIME, The New York Observer, and more.[18] He is a co-founder of the S.H.A.M.E. Project.

Bibliography

Filmography

References

  1. ^ Levine, Yasha (March 2017). "From Russia, with Panic". The Baffler.
  2. ^ "Episode #8: Breeders". yasha.substack.com. March 7, 2021.
  3. ^ Levine, Yasha (March 21, 2021). "It's official". yasha.substack.com.
  4. ^ a b Levine, Yasha (2018). Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet. PublicAffairs. p. 47. My family had just emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States. We left Leningrad in 1989 and spent six months bouncing around a series of refugee camps in Austria and Italy until we finally made it to New York, and then quickly relocated to San Francisco, where my father, Boris, used his incredible talent for languages to land a job as a Japanese translator.
  5. ^ a b Levine, Yasha (September 20, 2005). "Camp for Soviet Jews in Austria remembered". jta.org. Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA).
  6. ^ @yashalevine (February 23, 2020). "Nice to Bernie cleanup in Nevada yesterday! And on my birthday, too. Happy B-Day, Bernie!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  7. ^ Levine, Yasha (April 1, 2020). "Day 15: Rent's Due". yasha.substack.com. When I was born in 1981, my parents had already moved to 2-bedroom apartment in a housing development way out on the fringes of the city.
  8. ^ @yashalevine (February 15, 2017). "My passport says I was born in Russia (back then the USSR). I need to be doubly investigated" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  9. ^ "Surveillance Valley – Yasha Levine". surveillancevalley.com. Archived from the original on March 30, 2019.
  10. ^ a b Levine, Yasha (April 19, 2021). "Soviet immigrant camps and how I got into journalism". yasha.substack.com. I was 8 years old when my parents, older brother and myself left the Soviet Union in November 1989.
  11. ^ Levine, Yasha (2018). Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet. PublicAffairs. p. 47. My mother, Nellie, retooled her Soviet pedagogical PhD and began to teach physics in Galileo High School, while my brother Eli and I tried to acclimate and fit in as best we could.
  12. ^ Flatley, Joseph L. (14 June 2012). "Yasha Levine: using the web to fight 'journalistic malpractice'". The Verge. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  13. ^ Edwards, Brooke (8 September 2009). "Observing Victorville: Gonzo journalism from the "Key City"". Victorville Daily Press. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  14. ^ Levine, Yasha (2018). Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet.
  15. ^ "Briefly Noted Book Reviews". The New Yorker. 2018-04-02. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  16. ^ Yasha Levine. "Yasha Levine - Work". Yasha Levine. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  17. ^ "Yasha Levine author bio". AlterNet. Archived from the original on 8 May 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  18. ^ "Yasha Levine author bio". The S.H.A.M.E. Project. Retrieved 8 May 2018.

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