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Chapter 4: Baptism

More than a denial of Judaism, which she has never practiced, the baptism of Irene Nemirovsky expresses a spiritual aspiration, but also the fear of seeing her request for naturalization fail, while the anti-Semitic threat becomes clear. Little assiduous at the mass, she apologizes for it here with humor.

Letter from Archbishop Vladimir Ghika,
March 25, 1939. © Ghika Institute Fund

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