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Nidra Poller
Born1935 (age 88–89)
Jessup, Pennsylvania, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison (BA)
Johns Hopkins University (MA)
Occupations
  • Author
  • translator
  • writer
  • journalist
Years active1966–present

Nidra Poller (born 1935) is an American author, translator and writer who has lived in Paris since 1972.[1][2] In later years, she has also been a reporter and the Paris editor for Pajamas Media.[3][4][5][6]

Life and writing[edit]

Poller is Jewish,[1] and was born in Jessup, Pennsylvania.[2] She received a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and a Master of Arts in writing seminars from the Johns Hopkins University.[2] She began her literary career in 1966 with the publication of the short story "Wedding Party in Piazza Navona".[2] Originally a writer of fiction and translator from French to English, she switched to journalism around 2002, due to French anti-Israel reactions to the second Intifada from 2000, and anti-Americanism following the September 11 attacks.[7]

Poller has later contributed to English-language publications such as The Wall Street Journal, National Review, FrontPage Magazine, The New York Sun, Commentary, New English Review, Middle East Quarterly, American Thinker, The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel and many others.[2][8] Her writings include observations on society and politics, including a perceived strong anti-Israeli bias in France,[1][7][9] the Muhammad al-Durrah incident[10][11][12]—a "myth" and "a crudely fabricated video" as she described it in her 2014 book about the incident,[13] and anti-Jewish violence in France[14] such as the murder of Ilan Halimi.[15] In addition to being a writer, Poller is also a novelist, author of illustrated books for youths, and a translator, notably of the philosopher, Emmanuel Levinas, her translations having been said to manage "to preserve the richness of Levinas's evocative and difficult French",[16] and which "are rendered into a very readable English".[17]

She participated in the international counter-jihad conferences in Brussels in 2007[4][18] and in 2012,[19] and has been on the advisory board of the International Free Press Society.[20]

Bibliography[edit]

Authored books[edit]

  • African Journals. Cherry Valley Editions. 1970.
  • Eggs as usual breakfast etc. Éditions Cimarron. 1979. ISBN 9782864360018.
  • Horse de Verve (in French). Ouskokata. 1980. ISBN 9782864360032.
  • As-tu connu Machu Picchu? (in French). Messidor. 1984. ISBN 9782209056460.
  • Je t'en prie Grégory (in French). Le Seuil. 1993. ISBN 9782020189262.
  • Karimi hotel (in French). L'Harmattan. 2011. ISBN 9782296553361.
  • Al Dura: Long Range Ballistic Myth. Authorship. 2014. ISBN 9780988711945.
  • The Black Flag of Jihad Stalks La Republique. Authorship. 2015. ISBN 9780988711969.
  • Troubled Dawn of the 21st Century. Authorship. 2017. ISBN 9780988711983.
  • So Courage & Gypsy Motion. Authorship. 2019. ISBN 9780999466742.
  • madonna madonna. Authorship. 2019. ISBN 9780999466711.

Translated books[edit]

  • Kourouma, Ahmadou (1993) [1990]. Monnew: a novel [Monnè, outrages et défis]. Mercury House. ISBN 9781562790271.
  • Jeanneret, Michel (2001) [1997]. Perpetual Motion: Transforming Shapes in the Renaissance from da Vinci to Montaigne [Perpetuum mobile: métamorphoses des corps et des œuvres de Vinci à Montaigne]. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801864803.
  • Levinas, Emmanuel (2003) [1994]. Unforeseen History [Les imprévus de l'histoire]. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252028830.
  • Levinas, Emmanuel (2005) [1972]. Humanism of the Other [Humanisme de l'autre homme]. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252073267.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Wall, Alix (3 December 2004). "American in Paris: Author no longer loves her adopted land". The Jewish News of Northern California.
  2. ^ a b c d e Poller, Nidra (2019). Madonna Madonna (about author). Authorship International. ISBN 9780999466735.
  3. ^ "40s–50s" (PDF). On Wisconsin. Vol. 108, no. 4 (Winter 2007 ed.). 2007. p. 49.
  4. ^ a b Hannus, Martha (2012). Counterjihadrörelsen– en del av den antimuslimska miljön (in Swedish). Expo Research. pp. 66, 91. Archived from the original on 1 November 2022.
  5. ^ Barone, Michael (19 April 2007). "Of Victims And Virtues". CBS News.
  6. ^ Daniels, Susan (23 April 2007). "Battle Royal". Slate.
  7. ^ a b Gerstenfeld, Manfred (21 September 2012). "Europe's Jews: An American on French Anti-Israel Bias". Israel National News.
  8. ^ "Nidra Poller". Commentary. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
  9. ^ "An American Watching Anti-Israeli Bias in France – Interview with Nidra Poller". Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. 31 October 2006.
  10. ^ Johnson, Frank (1 October 2005). "Notebook". The Telegraph.
  11. ^ Johnson, Hannah (2012). Blood Libel: The Ritual Murder Accusation at the Limit of Jewish History. University of Michigan. p. 199. ISBN 9780472118359.
  12. ^ Herf, Jeffrey (2 December 2022). "Islamist Terror; Journalistic Error". Quillette.
  13. ^ Poller, Nidra (2014). Al Dura: Long Range Ballistic Myth. Authorship International. ISBN 9780988711952.
  14. ^ Israeli, Raphael (2011). Muslim Anti-Semitism in Christian Europe: Elemental and Residual Anti-Semitism. Transaction. p. 142. ISBN 9781412815550.
  15. ^ Poller, Nidra (23 February 2006). "The Murder of Ilan Halimi". The Wall Street Journal.
  16. ^ Burns, Lawrence (2006). "Humanism of the Other" (PDF). Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue canadienne de philosophie. 47 (1). University of Illinois Press: 206. doi:10.1017/S0012217300002559.
  17. ^ Aronowicz, Annette (2005). "Unforeseen History (review)". Shofar An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 23 (4): 170–172. doi:10.1353/sho.2005.0129.
  18. ^ "Counter Jihad Brussels: 18-19 October 2007". International Civil Liberties Alliance. 20 October 2007.
  19. ^ "Brussels 2012 Agenda". International Civil Liberties Alliance. 9 July 2012.
  20. ^ "International counter-jihad organisations". Hope not hate. January 11, 2018.
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