Nidra Poller

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| name = Nidra Poller

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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1935}}

| birth_place = Jessup, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| education = University of Wisconsin–Madison (BA)
Johns Hopkins University (MA)

| occupation = {{hlist|Author|translator|writer|journalist}}

| years_active = 1966–present

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Nidra Poller (born 1935) is an American author, novelist, translator and writer who has lived in Paris since 1972.{{cite news|url=https://jweekly.com/2004/12/03/american-in-paris-author-no-longer-loves-her-adopted-land/|title=American in Paris: Author no longer loves her adopted land|first=Alix|last=Wall|work=The Jewish News of Northern California|date=3 December 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613015830/https://jweekly.com/2004/12/03/american-in-paris-author-no-longer-loves-her-adopted-land/|archive-date=13 June 2024|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.inquisitr.com/975637/health-lifestyle|title=Words Of Hope For Israel And The Jewish People: An Interview With Author Nidra Poller|first=Wolff|last=Bachner|work=Inquisitr|date=1 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613180953/https://www.inquisitr.com/975637/health-lifestyle|archive-date=13 June 2024|url-status=unfit}} In later years, she has also been a reporter and the Paris editor for Pajamas Media.{{cite magazine|url=https://onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/content/uploads/2007/12/winter07.pdf|title=40s–50s|page=49|work=On Wisconsin|date=2007|edition=Winter 2007|volume=108|number=4|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613015829/https://onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/content/uploads/2007/12/winter07.pdf|archive-date=13 June 2024|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/of-victims-and-virtues/|title=Of Victims And Virtues|first=Michael|last=Barone|work=CBS News|date=19 April 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613015829/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/of-victims-and-virtues/|archive-date=13 June 2024|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/04/bloggers-on-the-french-election.html|title=Battle Royal|first=Susan|last=Daniels|work=Slate|date=23 April 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613015809/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/04/bloggers-on-the-french-election.html|archive-date=13 June 2024|url-status=live}}

Biography

Poller is Jewish,{{cite news|url=https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/06/08/outrage-over-special-labeling-for-french-passports-of-jews-on-aliyah-residence-listed-as-israelpalestinian-territories/|title=Outrage Over Special Labeling for French Passports of Jews on Aliyah; Residence Listed as ‘Israel/Palestinian Territories’|first=Ruthie|last=Blum|work=The Algemeiner|date=8 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613180953/https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/06/08/outrage-over-special-labeling-for-french-passports-of-jews-on-aliyah-residence-listed-as-israelpalestinian-territories/|archive-date=13 June 2024|url-status=live}} and was born to an observant family in Jessup, Pennsylvania. 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=auteurs&obj=artiste&no=20887|title=Nidra Poller|work=L'Harmattan|language=fr|accessdate=16 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240616033722/https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=auteurs&obj=artiste&no=20887|archive-date=16 June 2024|url-status=live}} She began her literary career in 1966 with the publication of the short story "Wedding Party in Piazza Navona" in the review Perspectives, and was a professor at Federal City College, Washington, D.C., from 1969 to 1972. Originally a writer of fiction and translator from French to English, she switched to journalism in 2000, due to perceived French anti-Israel reactions to the Second Intifada, and later anti-Americanism following the September 11 attacks.{{cite news|url=https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/340795|title=Europe's Jews: An American on French Anti-Israel Bias|first=Manfred|last=Gerstenfeld|work=Israel National News|date=21 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613015809/https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/340795|archive-date=13 June 2024|url-status=live}}

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. As a Zionist, her writings include observations on society and politics, including a perceived strong anti-Israeli bias in France, the Muhammad al-Durrah incident{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3620048/Notebook.html|title=Notebook|first=Frank|last=Johnson|work=The Telegraph|date=1 October 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613015829/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3620048/Notebook.html|archive-date=13 June 2024|url-status=live}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ri0tiLVQU4kC&pg=PA199|title=Blood Libel: The Ritual Murder Accusation at the Limit of Jewish History|first=Hannah|last=Johnson|year=2012|publisher=University of Michigan|page=199|isbn=9780472118359}}—a "myth" and "a crudely fabricated video" as she described it in her 2014 book about the incident,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rN28oAEACAAJ&q|title=Al Dura: Long Range Ballistic Myth|first=Nidra|last=Poller|year=2014|publisher=Authorship |isbn=9780988711952 }} and anti-Jewish violence in France{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mOb452lYsJIC&pg=PA142|page=142|title=Muslim Anti-Semitism in Christian Europe: Elemental and Residual Anti-Semitism|first=Raphael|last=Israeli|year=2011|publisher=Transaction|isbn=9781412815550}} such as the murder of Ilan Halimi.{{cite news|url=https://www.jta.org/2006/03/03/ny/identity-crisis|title=Identity Crisis|first=Jonathan|last=Mark|work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|date=3 March 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240615031730/https://www.jta.org/2006/03/03/ny/identity-crisis|archive-date=15 June 2024|url-status=live}} 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",{{cite journal|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248735162|pages=204-206|first=Lawrence|last=Burns|title=Humanism of the Other|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=2006|journal=Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue canadienne de philosophie|volume=47|issue=1|doi=10.1017/S0012217300002559}} and which "are rendered into a very readable English".{{cite journal|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236815906|title=Unforeseen History (review)|last=Aronowicz|first=Annette |year=2005|journal=Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies |volume=23|issue=4|pages=170-172|doi=10.1353/sho.2005.0129}}

She participated in the international counter-jihad conferences in Brussels in 2007{{cite book|url=https://expo.se/wp-content/uploads/expo_migration/counterjihadrorelsen_en_del_av_den_antimuslimska_rorelsen_2012.pdf|title=Counterjihadrörelsen– en del av den antimuslimska miljön|first=Martha|last=Hannus|pages=66, 91|year=2012|publisher=Expo Research|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241203232308/https://expo.se/wp-content/uploads/expo_migration/counterjihadrorelsen_en_del_av_den_antimuslimska_rorelsen_2012.pdf|archive-date=3 December 2024|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://libertiesalliance.org/2007/10/20/counter-jihad-brussels-18-19-october-2007/|title=Counter Jihad Brussels: 18-19 October 2007|date=20 October 2007|work=International Civil Liberties Alliance|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240616192117/https://libertiesalliance.org/2007/10/20/counter-jihad-brussels-18-19-october-2007/|archive-date=16 June 2024|url-status=live}} and in 2012,{{cite web|url=https://libertiesalliance.org/brusselsconference/brussels-2012-agenda/|work=International Civil Liberties Alliance|title=Brussels 2012 Agenda|date=9 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240413103818/https://libertiesalliance.org/brusselsconference/brussels-2012-agenda/|archive-date=13 April 2024|url-status=live}} and has been on the advisory board of the International Free Press Society.{{cite web|url=https://hopenothate.org.uk/2018/01/11/what-is-counter-jihadism/|title=International counter-jihad organisations|date=11 January 2018|work=Hope not Hate|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240407011107/https://hopenothate.org.uk/2018/01/11/what-is-counter-jihadism/|archive-date=7 April 2024|url-status=live}}

She has remained an American citizen ever since moving to France in 1972, and does not hold French citizenship.{{cite news|url=https://www.tribunejuive.info/2024/06/28/cris-de-guerre-xvii-nidra-poller-26-27-juin-2024/|title=CRIS DE GUERRE XVII. Nidra Poller. 26-27 juin 2024|first=Nidra|last=Poller|work=Tribune Juive|date=28 June 2024|language=fr|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250106031756/https://www.tribunejuive.info/2024/06/28/cris-de-guerre-xvii-nidra-poller-26-27-juin-2024/|archive-date=6 January 2025|url-status=live}}

Bibliography

=Authored books=

{{cite book|title=African Journals|publisher=Cherry Valley Editions|year=1970}}
{{cite book|title=Eggs as usual breakfast etc|publisher=Éditions Cimarron|year=1979|isbn=9782864360018}}
{{cite book|title=Horse de Verve|publisher=Ouskokata|year=1980|isbn=9782864360032}}
{{cite book|title=As-tu connu Machu Picchu?|language=fr|publisher=Messidor|year=1984|isbn=9782209056460}}
{{cite book|title=Je t'en prie Grégory|language=fr|publisher=Le Seuil|year=1993|isbn= 9782020189262}}
{{cite book|title=Karimi Hotel & other African equations|publisher=|year=2013|isbn=9781479362240}}
{{cite book|title=Al Dura: Long Range Ballistic Myth|publisher=Authorship|year=2014|isbn=9780988711945}}
{{cite book|title=The Black Flag of Jihad Stalks La Republique|publisher=Authorship|year=2015|isbn=9780988711969}}
{{cite book|title=Troubled Dawn of the 21st Century|publisher=Authorship|year=2017|isbn=9780988711983}}
{{cite book|title=So Courage & Gypsy Motion|publisher=Authorship|year=2019|isbn=9780999466742}}
{{cite book|title=madonna madonna|publisher=Authorship|year=2019|isbn=9780999466711}}

=Translated books=

{{cite book|title=Livre des Lumières|trans-title=The Book of Lights|first=Chaim|last=Potok|authorlink=Chaim Potok|language=fr|publisher=Buchet-Chastel|year=1985|orig-year=1981|isbn=9782702015254|others=Translated with Métral, Yvette}}
{{cite book|title=La Harpe de Davita|trans-title=Davita's Harp|first=Chaim|last=Potok|language=fr|publisher=Buchet Chastel|year=1987|orig-year=1985|isbn=9782702015247|others=Translated with Paddeu, Philippe}}
{{cite book|title=Monnew: a novel|trans-title=Monnè, outrages et defis|first=Ahmadou|last=Kourouma|authorlink=Ahmadou Kourouma|publisher=Mercury House|year=1993|orig-year=1990|isbn=9781562790271}}
{{cite book|title=Perpetual Motion: Transforming Shapes in the Renaissance from da Vinci to Montaigne|trans-title=Perpetuum mobile: métamorphoses des corps et des œuvres de Vinci à Montaigne|first=Michel|last=Jeanneret|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|year=2001|orig-year=1997|isbn= 9780801864803}}
{{cite book|title=Unforeseen History|trans-title=Les imprévus de l'histoire|first=Emmanuel|last=Levinas|authorlink=Emmanuel Levinas|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=2003|orig-year=1994|isbn=9780252028830}}
{{cite book|title=Humanism of the Other|trans-title=Humanisme de l'autre homme|first=Emmanuel|last=Levinas|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=2005|orig-year=1972|isbn=9780252073267}}