Marek Halter, Author, trans. from the French by Howard Curtis. Crown $24 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4000-5272-1 Yet another entry in the burgeoning subgenre of fictional portraits of biblical women (see, for ...

On my way back from Cannes I stopped in Paris and went to meet my old friend Marek Halter — writer, political activist, militant for peace — and found that he had moved on from old paradigms.

Marek Halter, the noted French Jewish writer, painter and political activist, will speak Monday evening, March 28, at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, He will deliver the annual Interfaith ...

The French writer Marek Halter is an all-round intellectual and human rights activist. From humble beginnings he escaped life in a Warsaw ghetto to settle in France with his family in 1950. He has ...

This tribal memoir in novelistic form is a sequel to The Book of Abraham, the best-seller in which Marek Halter traced a Jewish family for nearly 2,000 years, from the destruction of the Temple in AD ...

PARIS (JTA) — A burst of applause greeted Holocaust survivor Marek Halter and his close friend, Imam Hassen Chalghoumi, as they entered the Synagogue de la Victoire together in January. Halter, a ...

After he was shot during a raid on the Riga ghetto in Latvia in December 1941, the dean of Jewish historians, Simon Dubnov, cried out, “Screibt un farschreibt! (Write and record!)” His impassioned ...

Marek Halter is a French writer and activist, known best for his historical novels, which have been translated into English, Polish, Hebrew, and many other languages. He was born in Warsaw, Poland in ...

Storytelling saved Halter's life. In this in-depth chronicle of the origins of Jewish faith and history the author begins with a personal anecdote about fleeing the Warsaw ghetto with his father and ...