Jill Culiner (born September 13, 1945) is a Canadian

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, photographer and writer.

Personal life

Jill Culiner was born in New York City in 1945, and as an infant, she moved with her parents moved to Toronto. She is a

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. She lives in France.

Work

She has had one-person shows of her photography and "boxes" (an art form she pioneered that depicts various

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in 3-D) in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, Canada and Hungary. Her exhibition (with texts) entitled "La Mémoire Effacée" (The Vanished Memory, Az Elenyészett Emlék) concerning the First and Second World Wars, and the vanished Jewish communities of Europe, toured France, Canada and Hungary from 1996 to 2004 and was showcased in Budapest at the city's Holocaust Museum. Culiner's first book was a photography book, ''Sans s'abolir pourtant'' (L'Echoppe, Paris, France 1992). She has also written novels. The first was ''Felicity's Power'' (Power of Love, Australia 2001), and her second novel, '' Slanderous Tongue'' (Sumach Press, 2007), is a social critical murder-mystery set in a village in France. Culiner's third novel, ''A Sad Summer in Biarritz'' (Club Lighthouse Pub, 2017), is also set in France. Culiner also wrote a non-fiction literary

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, ''Finding Home: In the footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers'' (Sumach Press, 2004), which won the Joseph and Faye Tanenbaum Prize in Canadian Jewish History (

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2005), and was shortlisted for ''ForeWord Magazine Prizes 2004 Book of the Year Awards Essay and History category, 2004. Culiner speaks to groups across Canada, the United States, France and Israel about various aspects of European Jewish history. Most recently, she has written a travelogue, ''A Contrary Journey'' (Claret Press, 2021),https://www.claretpress.com/book/a-contrary-journey-with-velvel-zbarzher%2C-bard which follows her exploration into the life of

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and the Jewish Renaissance of the 19th Century.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Culiner, Jill 1945 births Living people Photographers from New York City Artists from Toronto American emigrants to Canada Canadian women journalists Canadian photographers Canadian women photographers Canadian women artists 21st-century Canadian novelists Canadian non-fiction writers Canadian women novelists Journalists from Toronto Yiddish-speaking people Naturalized citizens of Canada Writers from New York City Writers from Toronto 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian women non-fiction writers Jewish Canadian journalists