Nidra Poller

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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[edit]

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][3] 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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e Poller, Nidra (2019). Madonna Madonna (about author). Authorship International. ISBN 9780999466735.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Nidra Poller". Commentary. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
  4. ^ "An American Watching Anti-Israeli Bias in France – Interview with Nidra Poller". Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. 31 October 2006.
  5. ^ Johnson, Hannah (2012). Blood Libel: The Ritual Murder Accusation at the Limit of Jewish History. University of Michigan. p. 199. ISBN 9780472118359.
  6. ^ Poller, Nidra (2014). Al Dura: Long Range Ballistic Myth. Authorship International. ISBN 9780988711952.
  7. ^ Israeli, Raphael (2011). Muslim Anti-Semitism in Christian Europe: Elemental and Residual Anti-Semitism. Transaction. p. 142. ISBN 9781412815550.
  8. ^ Poller, Nidra (23 February 2006). "The Murder of Ilan Halimi". The Wall Street Journal.
  9. ^ Burns, Larence (2006). "Humanism of the Other" (PDF). Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue canadienne de philosophie. 47 (1). University of Illinois Press: 206.
  10. ^ Aronowicz, A. (2005). "Unforeseen History, by Emmanuel Levinas". Shofar. 23 (4): 171.
  11. ^ "Counter Jihad Brussels: 18-19 October 2007". International Civil Liberties Alliance. 20 October 2007.
  12. ^ "Brussels 2012 Agenda". International Civil Liberties Alliance. 9 July 2012.
  13. ^ "International counter-jihad organisations". Hope not hate. January 11, 2018.


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