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Irène Némirovsky

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Irène Némirovsky (24 February 1903 – 17 August 1942) was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin born in Kiev Ukraine under the Russian Empire; she lived more than half her life in France, and wrote in French, but was denied French citizenship. [1]

74 relations: Alfred A. Knopf, Antisemitism, Auschwitz concentration camp, Éditions Albin Michel, Baptism, Bestseller, Bruce Marshall, Burgundy, Catholic Church, Chatto & Windus, David Golder, David Koker, Diary, Etty Hillesum, Finland, French language, Gas chamber, Gringoire (newspaper), Hana Brady, Harry Baur, Hélène Berr, Helga Deen, Henio Zytomirski, Herzogenbusch concentration camp, History of the Jews in Ukraine, Identification in Nazi camps, Institute for Contemporary Publishing Archives, Issy-l'Évêque, Ivan Turgenev, Janet Langhart, Jewish Quarterly, Jews, Jonathan M. Weiss, Julien Duvivier, Kiev, Le Bal (novella), Le Vin de solitude, Manuscript, Modernism, Nazi Germany, Nazism, Novelist, Novella, Oscar Strasnoy, Oscar Wilde, Paris, Persephone Books, Philippe Pétain, Pithiviers internment camp, Poste restante, ..., Prix Renaudot, Robert Brasillach, Russian Empire, Russian Revolution, Rutka Laskier, Self-hating Jew, Sophie Scholl, Sorbonne, Stanford University Press, Stock (publishing house), Story arc, Suite française (Némirovsky novel), Tanya Savicheva, The New York Times, The Times, Typhus, Ukraine, Ultranationalism, Věra Kohnová, Vichy France, WAMU, Westerbork transit camp, Yellow badge, Yellow Tapers for Paris. Expand index (24 more) »

Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. and Blanche Knopf in 1915.

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews.

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Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II.

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Éditions Albin Michel

Éditions Albin Michel is a French publisher.

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Baptism

Baptism (from the Greek noun βάπτισμα baptisma; see below) is a Christian sacrament of admission and adoption, almost invariably with the use of water, into Christianity.

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Bestseller

A bestseller is, usually, a book that is included on a list of top-selling or frequently-borrowed titles, normally based on publishing industry and book trade figures and library circulation statistics; such lists may be published by newspapers, magazines, or book store chains.

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Bruce Marshall

Lieutenant-Colonel Claude Cunningham Bruce Marshall, known as Bruce Marshall (24 June 1899 – 18 June 1987) was a prolific Scottish writer who wrote fiction and non-fiction books on a wide range of topics and genres.

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Burgundy

Burgundy (Bourgogne) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Chatto & Windus

Chatto & Windus was an important publisher of books in London, founded in the Victorian era.

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David Golder

David Golder is writer Irène Némirovsky's first novel.

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David Koker

The Jewish student David Koker (27 November 1921 - 23 February 1945) lived with his family in Amsterdam until he was captured on the night of 11 February 1943 and transported to camp Vught.

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Diary

A diary is a record (originally in handwritten format) with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period.

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Etty Hillesum

Esther "Etty" Hillesum (15 January 1914 – 30 November 1943) was the Dutch author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the German occupation.

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Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Gas chamber

A gas chamber is an apparatus for killing humans or other animals with gas, consisting of a sealed chamber into which a poisonous or asphyxiant gas is introduced.

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Gringoire (newspaper)

Gringoire was a political and literary weekly newspaper in France, founded in 1928 by Horace de Carbuccia (son-in-law of Jean Chiappe, the prefect of police involved in the Stavisky Affair), Georges Suarez and Joseph Kessel.

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Hana Brady

Hana Brady, actually Hana "Hanička" Bradyová (16 May 1931 – 23 October 1944), was a Jewish girl murdered in the gas chambers at German concentration camp of Auschwitz, located in the occupied territory of Poland, during the Holocaust.

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Harry Baur

Harry Baur (12 April 1880 as Henri-Marie Baur in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine – 8 April 1943 in Paris) was a French actor.

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Hélène Berr

Hélène Berr (27 March 1921 – April 1945) was a French woman of Jewish ancestry and faith, who documented her life in a diary during the time of Nazi occupation of France.

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Helga Deen

Helga Deen (6 April 1925 – 16 July 1943) was the author of a diary, discovered in 2004, which describes her stay in a Dutch prison camp, Kamp Vught, where she was brought during World War II at the age of 18.

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Henio Zytomirski

Henio Zytomirski (Henio Żytomirski, הניו ז'יטומירסקי; 25 March 1933 – 9 November 1942) was a Polish Jew born in Lublin, Poland who was murdered at the age of 9 in a gas chamber at Majdanek concentration camp, during the German Nazi occupation of Poland.

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Herzogenbusch concentration camp

Herzogenbusch concentration camp (Kamp Vught,, Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch) was a Nazi concentration camp located in Vught near the city of 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

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History of the Jews in Ukraine

Jewish communities have existed in the territory of Ukraine from the time of Kievan Rus' (one of Kiev city gates was called Judaic) and developed many of the most distinctive modern Jewish theological and cultural traditions such as Hasidism.

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Identification in Nazi camps

Identification of inmates in German concentration camps was performed mostly with identification numbers marked on clothing, or later, tattooed on the skin.

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Institute for Contemporary Publishing Archives

L'Institut mémoires de l'édition contemporaine (IMEC), translated as The Institute for Contemporary Publishing Archives, is a French institution created in 1988 at the initiative of researchers and professionals in French publishing to gather archives and studies related to the main French publishing houses.

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Issy-l'Évêque

Issy-l'Évêque is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France.

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Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲeɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf; September 3, 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.

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Janet Langhart

Janet Leola Langhart Cohen (née Floyd; born December 22, 1940) is an American television journalist and anchor, and author.

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Jewish Quarterly

Jewish Quarterly is a UK literary and cultural magazine, published 4 times a year.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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Jonathan M. Weiss

Jonathan Mark Weiss (born May 3, 1942) is an American scholar of French literature and social science whose extensive publications include literary and theatre criticism, essays on Franco-American relations, a short story, and most recently the biography of Irène Némirovsky.

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Julien Duvivier

Julien Duvivier (8 October 1896, Lille – 29 October 1967, Paris) was a French film director.

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Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv (Kyiv; Kiyev; Kyjev) is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper.

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Le Bal (novella)

Le Bal is the title of collection of 2 novellas written by Irène Némirovsky.

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Le Vin de solitude

Le Vin de solitude, published in English as The Wine of Solitude, is a novel by Russian Jewish author Irène Némirovsky (1903 – 1942), who died in the Holocaust.

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Manuscript

A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand -- or, once practical typewriters became available, typewritten -- as opposed to being mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way.

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Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

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Nazism

National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.

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Novelist

A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.

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Novella

A novella is a text of written, fictional, narrative prose normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, somewhere between 7,500 and 40,000 words.

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Oscar Strasnoy

Oscar Strasnoy (born November 12, 1970) is a French-Argentine composer, conductor and pianist.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Persephone Books

Persephone Books is an independent publisher based in Bloomsbury, London.

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Philippe Pétain

Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain (24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain (Maréchal Pétain), was a French general officer who attained the position of Marshal of France at the end of World War I, during which he became known as The Lion of Verdun, and in World War II served as the Chief of State of Vichy France from 1940 to 1944.

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Pithiviers internment camp

Pithiviers internment camp was a Nazi transit camp in Pithiviers, France during the Second World War.

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Poste restante

Poste restante ("remainder post") or general delivery is a service where the post office holds the mail until the recipient calls for it.

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Prix Renaudot

The Prix Théophraste-Renaudot or Prix Renaudot is a French literary award which was created in 1926 by 10 art critics awaiting the results of deliberation of the jury of the Prix Goncourt.

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Robert Brasillach

Robert Brasillach (31 March 1909 – 6 February 1945) was a French author and journalist.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.

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Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.

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Rutka Laskier

Rut "Rutka" Laskier (1929–1943) was a young Jewish diarist from Poland who is best known for her 1943 diary chronicling the three months of her life during the Holocaust. She was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943 at the age of fourteen. Her manuscript, authenticated by Holocaust scholars and survivors, was published in the Polish language for the first time ever in early 2006, drawing comparisons to the diary of Anne Frank instantly. It has since been released in numerous translations.

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Self-hating Jew

Self-hating Jew or self-loathing Jew is a pejorative term used for a Jewish person who is alleged to hold antisemitic views.

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Sophie Scholl

Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.

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Sorbonne

The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which was the historical house of the former University of Paris.

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Stanford University Press

The Stanford University Press (SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University.

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Stock (publishing house)

Stock is a French publisher, a subsidiary of Hachette Livre, which itself is part of the Lagardère Group.

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Story arc

A story arc (also narrative arc) is an extended or continuing storyline in episodic storytelling media such as television, comic books, comic strips, boardgames, video games, and films with each episode following a dramatic arc.

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Suite française (Némirovsky novel)

Suite française ("French Suite") is the title of a planned sequence of five novels by Irène Némirovsky, a French writer of Ukrainian-Jewish origin.

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Tanya Savicheva

Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva (Татья́на Никола́евна Са́вичева), commonly referred to as Tanya Savicheva (23 January 1930 – 1 July 1944) was a Russian child diarist who endured the Siege of Leningrad during World War II.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Typhus

Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus and murine typhus.

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Ukraine

Ukraine (Ukrayina), sometimes called the Ukraine, is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the east and northeast; Belarus to the northwest; Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively.

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Ultranationalism

Ultranationalism is an "extreme nationalism that promotes the interest of one state or people above all others", or simply "extreme devotion to one's own nation".

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Věra Kohnová

Věra Kohnová (1929–1942) was a Jewish girl from Czechoslovakia.

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Vichy France

Vichy France (Régime de Vichy) is the common name of the French State (État français) headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II.

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WAMU

WAMU (88.5 FM) is a public news/talk station that services the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

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Westerbork transit camp

Camp Westerbork (Kamp Westerbork, Durchgangslager Westerbork) was a transit camp in Drenthe province, northeastern Netherlands, during World War II.

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Yellow badge

Yellow badges (or yellow patches), also referred to as Jewish badges (Judenstern, lit. Jewry star), are badges that Jews and Christians were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews and Christians in public at certain times in certain countries, serving as a badge of shame.

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Yellow Tapers for Paris

Yellow Tapers for Paris is a 1943 novel by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irène_Némirovsky

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