# Nidra Poller > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nidra_Poller > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nidra_Poller.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidra_Poller > Source revision: 1319670678 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American writer and translator}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Nidra Poller | image = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1935}} | birth_place = [Jessup, Pennsylvania](/source/Jessup%2C_Pennsylvania), U.S. | education = [University of Wisconsin–Madison](/source/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison) ([BA](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts))
[Johns Hopkins University](/source/Johns_Hopkins_University) ([MA](/source/Master_of_Arts)) | occupation = {{hlist|Author|translator|writer|journalist}} | years_active = 1966–present | website = | footnotes = }} '''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](/source/Pajamas_Media).{{cite magazine|url=https://onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/content/uploads/2007/12/winter07.pdf|title=40s–50s|page=49|magazine=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 [Jew](/source/Jew)ish,{{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](/source/Jessup%2C_Pennsylvania). She received a [Bachelor of Arts](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) in history from the [University of Wisconsin–Madison](/source/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison), and a [Master of Arts](/source/Master_of_Arts) in writing seminars from the [Johns Hopkins University](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Criticism_of_Israel) reactions to the [Second Intifada](/source/Second_Intifada), and later [anti-Americanism](/source/anti-Americanism) following the [September 11 attacks](/source/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](/source/The_Wall_Street_Journal)'', ''[National Review](/source/National_Review)'', ''[FrontPage Magazine](/source/FrontPage_Magazine)'', ''[The New York Sun](/source/The_New_York_Sun)'', ''[Commentary](/source/Commentary_(magazine))'', ''[New English Review](/source/New_English_Review)'', ''[Middle East Quarterly](/source/Middle_East_Quarterly)'', ''[American Thinker](/source/American_Thinker)'', ''[The Jerusalem Post](/source/The_Jerusalem_Post)'', ''[The Times of Israel](/source/The_Times_of_Israel)'' and many others. As a [Zionist](/source/Zionist), her writings include observations on society and politics, including a perceived strong anti-Israeli bias in France, the [Muhammad al-Durrah incident](/source/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|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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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=CreateSpace|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=== {{refbegin|30em}} * {{cite book|title=Livre des Lumières|trans-title=[The Book of Lights](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Monn%C3%A8%2C_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}} {{refend}} ==References== {{Reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Poller, Nidra}} Category:1935 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century American Jews Category:20th-century American novelists Category:20th-century American translators Category:20th-century American women novelists Category:21st-century American Jews Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers Category:21st-century American novelists Category:21st-century American translators Category:21st-century American women novelists Category:American counter-jihad activists Category:American expatriates in France Category:American women journalists Category:American women non-fiction writers Category:French-language American writers Category:American Zionists Category:English–French translators Category:French–English translators Category:FrontPage Magazine people Category:Jewish American journalists Category:Jewish American non-fiction writers Category:Jewish American novelists Category:Jews from Pennsylvania Category:Johns Hopkins University alumni Category:Journalists from Paris Category:American literary translators Category:National Review people Category:People from Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Category:Writers from Paris Category:Writers from Pennsylvania Category:Writers on antisemitism --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Nidra Poller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidra_Poller) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidra_Poller?action=history)). 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