A Yiddish Writer Who Writes in French

Myriam Anissimov

1995

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 language by the Hasidim, primarily in New York, Meah Shearim, and Bnei Brak, it is about to disappear outside of these purely religious groups. But Yiddish…

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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.

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