Nidra Poller

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Nidra Poller
Born1935 (age 89–90)
Jessup, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education University of Wisconsin–Madison (BA)
Johns Hopkins University (MA)
Occupations
  • Author
  • translator
  • writer
  • journalist
Years active1966–present

Nidra Poller (born 1935) is an American author, novelist, 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]

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Biography

Poller is Jewish, [1] [6] and was born to an observant family 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] [7] She began her literary career in 1966 with the publication of the short story "Wedding Party in Piazza Navona" in the review Perspectives, [2] and was a professor at Federal City College, Washington, D.C., from 1969 to 1972. [7] Originally a writer of fiction and translator from French to English, she switched to journalism in 2000, [2] due to perceived French anti-Israel reactions to the Second Intifada, and later anti-Americanism following the September 11 attacks. [8]

Poller has contributed to 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] As a Zionist, [9] her writings include observations on society and politics, including a perceived strong anti-Israeli bias in France, [1] [2] [8] the Muhammad al-Durrah incident [10] [11] —a "myth" and "a crudely fabricated video" as she described it in her 2014 book about the incident, [12] and anti-Jewish violence in France [13] such as the murder of Ilan Halimi. [14] 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", [15] and which "are rendered into a very readable English". [16]

She participated in the international counter-jihad conferences in Brussels in 2007 [17] [18] and in 2012, [19] and has been on the advisory board of the International Free Press Society. [20]

She has remained an American citizen ever since moving to France in 1972, and does not hold French citizenship. [9]

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