Daniel Mendelsohn

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Posted on October 18, 2010 by Steve Pollak

Jean-Luc Godard: Anti-Semite or non?

There was a pretty remarkable piece in The Forward last week about how the arguably anti-Semitic remarks of French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard may not mean much to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which intends to bestow an … Continue reading

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Steve Pollak

Schedule announced for Jewish Book Week 2008

Even though I write in English, this blog gets very few visitors from England. In fact, in the five or so months I’ve been posting regularly, I’ve received fewer than 100 visits from United Kingdom (according to my Google Analytics … Continue reading

Posted on November 14, 2007 by Steve Pollak

Holocaust book wins French literary prize

Daniel Mendelsohn received one of France’s top literary awards for “The Lost,” a book about Mendelsohn’s search for relatives who died in the Holocaust. Mendelsohn won the Prix Medicis in the foreign work category. “La Strategie des antilopes” (The Strategy … Continue reading