Shukman Family
Shukman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *David Shukman (born 1958), British journalist *Henry Shukman (born 1962), British poet and writer * Harold Shukman (1931–2012), British historian See also *Shulman Shulman is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname that literally means "shul- man". A shul is another name for a synagogue, a Jewish house of worship, and the name was usually given to the head of the synagogue or the synagogue's rabbi. It can also appear as ...

David Shukman
David Roderick Shukman (born 30 May 1958) is a British journalist, and the former science editor of BBC News. Early life Shukman was born in 1958 in St Pancras, London. He is of Jewish ancestry – his grandfather, whom he is named after, was part of the Jewish community who lived in Baranow, Congress Poland which was then part of the Russian Empire, before emigrating and settling in the United Kingdom. His father was Harold Shukman, a Russian scholar at St Antony's College, Oxford; his mother was Ann King-Farlow, also a Russian scholar, of writers such as Alexander Men (a Russian theologian). Shukman attended the Dragon School and Eton College, then earned a bachelor's degree in geography at Durham University in 1980. and was a member of Hatfield College. Career Shukman worked at the ''Coventry Evening Telegraph'' from 1980 to 1983 when he joined the BBC. He was a Northern Ireland reporter from 1985 to 1987, then the Defence Correspondent (TV) from 1987 to 1995. From then ...
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