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American writer and translator
Nidra Poller (born 1935) is an American author, translator and writer who has lived in Paris since 1972.
[1] She has been the Paris editor of
Pajamas Media .
[2]
Life and writing
Poller was born in
Jessup, Pennsylvania .
[1] She received a
B.A. in history from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison , and an
M.A. in writing seminars from the
Johns Hopkins University .
[1] She began her literary career in 1966 with the publication of the short story "Wedding Party in Piazza Navona".
[1]
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.
[1] Her writings include observations on society and politics, including a perceived anti-Israeli bias in France,
[4] the
Muhammad al-Durrah incident
[5] —a "myth" and "a crudely fabricated video" as she described it in her 2014 book about the incident,
[6] and anti-Jewish violence in France
[7] such as the
murder of Ilan Halimi .
[8] 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 , which has been said to manage "to
preserve the richness of Levinas's evocative and difficult French",
[9] and "are rendered into a very readable English".
[10]
She participated in the international
counter-jihad conferences in Brussels in 2007
[2]
[11] and in 2012,
[12] and has been on the advisory board of the
International Free Press Society .
[13]
Bibliography
Horse York , Ouskokata, 1980
Did you know Machu Picchu? , Messidor, 1984
I beg you, Gregory , Le Seuil, 1993
Karimi Hotel & other African equations , Authorship, 2013
Al Dura: Long Range Ballistic Myth , Authorship, 2014
The Black Flag of Jihad Stalks La Republique , Authorship, 2015
Troubled Dawn of the 21st Century , Authorship, 2017
So Courage & Gypsy Motion , Authorship, 2019
Madonna Madonna , Authorship, 2019
Notes
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c
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e Poller, Nidra (2019).
Madonna Madonna (about author) . Authorship International.
ISBN
9780999466735 .
^
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.
^
"An American Watching Anti-Israeli Bias in France – Interview with Nidra Poller" . Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs . 31 October 2006.
^ Johnson, Hannah (2012).
Blood Libel: The Ritual Murder Accusation at the Limit of Jewish History . University of Michigan. p. 199.
ISBN
9780472118359 .
^ Poller, Nidra (2014).
Al Dura: Long Range Ballistic Myth . Authorship International.
ISBN
9780988711952 .
^ Israeli, Raphael (2011).
Muslim Anti-Semitism in Christian Europe: Elemental and Residual Anti-Semitism . Transaction. p. 142.
ISBN
9781412815550 .
^ Poller, Nidra (23 February 2006).
"The Murder of Ilan Halimi" . The Wall Street Journal .
^ Burns, Larence (2006).
"Humanism of the Other" (PDF) . Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue canadienne de philosophie . 47 (1). University of Illinois Press: 206.
^ Aronowicz, A. (2005).
"Unforeseen History, by Emmanuel Levinas" . Shofar . 23 (4): 171.
^
"Counter Jihad Brussels: 18-19 October 2007" . International Civil Liberties Alliance . 20 October 2007.
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"Brussels 2012 Agenda" . International Civil Liberties Alliance . 9 July 2012.
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"International counter-jihad organisations" . Hope not hate . January 11, 2018.
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