Welcome to the 2009 Jewish Music Festival Season

Michael Krasny

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Michael Krasny, Ph.D., is host of KQED’s award-winning Forum, a news and public affairs program that concentrates on the arts, culture, health, business and technology.

Since 1970 he has been a professor of English at San Francisco State University and is a widely published scholar, critic, former regular contributor to Mother Jones magazine and a fiction writer.

Dr. Krasny has interviewed many of the leading newsmakers and cultural icons of our time, including Saul Bellow, former President Jimmy Carter, Cesar Chavez, Noam Chomsky, Newt Gingrich, Jane Goodall, Rosa Parks, Salman Rushdie, Susan Sontag and Arcrchbishop Desmond Tutu. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, including The SY Agnon Gold Medal for Intellectual Distinction, The Eugene Block Award for Human Rights Journalism, The Inclusiveness in Media Award from The National Conference for Community and Justice, and a Koret Foundation Fellowship. He has also been named best talk show host by Focus magazine, a number of Bay Area newspapers, The San Francisco Publicity Club and Citysearch.

Dr. Krasny received his B.A. (Cum Laude) and M.A. from Ohio University, where he is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and his Ph.D. from The University of Wisconsin.