Creator Bio
Myriam Anissimov
b. 1943
Myriam Anissimov was born in a refugee camp in Sierre, Switzerland. She has lived in Paris since 1966, where she is a novelist, journalist, and actor. Her nonfiction works include a biography of Primo Levi, for which she received the WIZO Prize. Anissimov was also named Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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A Yiddish Writer Who Writes in French
I belong to that peculiar generation of Jews who have the duty to speak Yiddish, my mother tongue, in a tongue at once familiar and “foreign”—French. Though Yiddish is still used as a vernacular…