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Piotr Smolar

Piotr Smolar is a French journalist of Polish origin. He is the senior correspondent for Le Monde in Washington, DC. After working in Moscow from 1997 to 2001, he published a book in French on Russia’s heartland, Gloubinka. He extensively covered Russia’s neighboring countries, before becoming Le Monde’s correspondent in Jerusalem (2014–2019). Bad Jew is his first book to appear in English.

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