WOMAN OF LETTERS IS CO-PRODUCED WITH
INSTITUT MÉMOIRES DE L’ÉDITION CONTEMPORAINE.
This exhibition is made possible through generous funding
from: American Express, David Berg Foundation, and the
Grand Marnier Foundation; leadership gifts from: Nancy Fisher,
Fanya Gottesfeld Heller, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council with
the generous support of The September 11th Fund, and The Robert
Sillins Family Foundation; and additional support provided
by: The Diller – von Furstenberg Family Foundation, Cultural
Services of the French Embassy, Alexis Gregory Foundation, The
Felix & Elizabeth Rohatyn Foundation, Howard J. Rubenstein, and L’Avion.
Rotunda Salon furnished courtesy of Ligne Roset.
All translations of Irène Némirovsky's novels, letters, and journals by Sandra Smith.
This website is made possible with the generous support of the Nash Family Foundation.
Past Events
Novelists and 9/ 11
With Claire Messud, The Emperor's Children; Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes; and Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
What happens when serious fiction incorporates the newsworthy and traumatic events of the day? Inspired by Irène Némirovsky and her accounts of the occupation of France, novelists will discuss the challenges of writing about 9/11.
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HIding in plain sight: Pre- and Post-War French Cinema
Curated by Professor Dudley Andrew, Yale University
The series begins with the first showing of David Golder since its original premiere in 1930. The series continues with a look at how the Nazi occupation of France influenced French cinema long after the war had ended, and how filmmakers took on the task of exploring complex and often controversial topics about this period of French history.
January 18: David Golder; Les Jeux Interdits
January 21: Lacombe, Lucien
January 25: Stavisky; Monsieur Klein
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IRÈNE NÉMIROVSKY AND THE JEWISH QUESTION
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
With Ruth Franklin, editor, The New Republic; Susan Suleiman, professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University; and Maurice Samuels, Professor of French, Yale University
Our panel of literary critics and scholars held a fascinating discussion about the enigmatic and complex woman who was Irène Némirovsky, a novelist whose death in Auschwitz left behind not only an epic unfinished novel, but heated controversies that continue to cast shadows over her life and work.
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IRÈNE NÉMIROVSKY: A DAUGHTER'S DISCOVERY
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
With Denise Epstein, daughter of Irène
Némirovsky, interviewed by Professor Sandra Smith, Némirovsky’s
translator
Fifty years after her mother’s death, Denise Epstein discovered
and transcribed the first two parts of the remarkable, unfinished
five-part novel, Suite Française, now a worldwide bestseller.
Denise will discuss her mother’s life and work with Némirovsky
translator and literature professor Sandra Smith.
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JEWS IN VICHY FRANCE
With Michael Marrus, Dean of Graduate
Studies and the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust
Studies at the University of Toronto, and Robert O. Paxton, Robert
O. Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, Columbia University
In 1941, the Vichy government worked with the Nazis to begin rounding
up Jews for the concentration camps. Between 1942 and 1944, nearly
76,000 Jews were deported to concentration camps from France.
These world-renowned scholars and authors of Vichy France and
the Jews will provide historical context for the experience of
Irène Némirovsky and other Jews of France during
World War II.
This program is made possible by a generous gift from the Conference
on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany: Rabbi Israel Miller
Fund for Shoah Research, Documentation and Education.
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THE LIFE OF IRÈNE NÉMIROVSKY
Salon conversation with author Olivier Philipponnat, interviewed by Ivy Barsky, Museum deputy director
Olivier Philipponnat, the French biographer of Irène Némirovsky, will discuss recent research into Némirovsky’s life and the discovery of intimate diaries, personal reflections and correspondence, as well as interviews and testimonials from her family and colleagues.
Presented in association with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and Délégation générale de l'Alliance Française aux États-Unis.
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The Journal of HÉLÈne Berr
(Weinstein Books, 2008)
A conversation with Mariette Job, niece of Hélène Berr, interviewed by David Bellos, translator of the book
Kept as a family heirloom until its publication in 2007, Hélène Berr’s journal begins in the spring of 1942 and recounts her life as a Jew in Paris under the Occupation. This compelling narrative ends two years later, when she and her family were deported to Auschwitz. Ms. Berr died in Bergen-Belsen in 1945, just two weeks before British troops liberated the camp.
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