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Irène Némirovsky ( French: [iʁɛn nemiʁɔfski]; 11 February 1903 – 17 August 1942) was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin who was born in Kiev, then in the Russian Empire. She lived more than half her life in France and wrote in French, but was denied French nationality.
Irène Némirovsky was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1903, into a family of Jewish bankers. Her father Leon was one of the richest financiers in Russia and she grew up surrounded by wealth and elegance in St. Petersburg.
May 9, 2010 · In a novel written around the same time, Némirovsky made her hero a banker who is a “rich young Jew”; his clerk, also Jewish, has flabby hands and “an almost unseemly nose and a filthy gray...
NÉMIROVSKY, IRÈNE (1903–1942), French author. Born in Kiev to a well-to-do assimilated family, Némirovsky received an aristocratic education, speaking French at an early age. Her early years were marked by tragic experiences during the civil war in Russia (including a pogrom).
That governess worked in the household of a 38-year-old Russian-born Jewish author who saw herself as culturally French but who, under the restrictive laws of the Vichy regime, was no longer...
autobiographical novel, the Jewishness of the Karol family, who flee Russia after the Revolution, is only alluded to or mentioned in passing, rather than openly discussed; but it forms an important subtext, espe-cially since Némirovsky emphasizes social differences within the Jewish family itself.
The Némirovsky family lived in Saint Petersburg in Russia, where the young Irène was brought up by a French governess. The environment almost made French her native tongue; however, she also spoke Yiddish, Basque, Finnish, Polish, and English.
