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Andrew talks to Uri Kaufman, author of Eighteen Days in October, about the 1973 Yom Kippur War and how it created the modern Middle East.
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After putting himself through CUNY’s Queens College at night, Uri Kaufman attended New York University School of Law and graduated with honors in 1989. Kaufman subsequently became a real estate developer, specializing in adaptively restoring historic buildings, winning awards at the national and state level. His Harmony Mills project appears on the homepage of the New York State Historic Preservation Office’s website, hailed by officials as perhaps the finest example of restoring New York’s rich architectural heritage. For over twenty years, Kaufman visited battlefields, interviewed veterans, and reviewed thousands of pages of declassified records. Kaufman is fluent in Hebrew and hired a team of researchers to translate Russian, Arabic and German records (to review Stasi files describing Syria). Eighteen Days in October is the first history of the Yom Kippur War to be released in almost twenty years, and the first to rely upon recently declassified information.
