Marc Weitzmann

Marc Weitzmann was born in Paris to a family of Jewish Alsatian, Ukrainian, and Polish origins. He grew up in Reims and Besançon, where his father worked as a theater actor. He began his career as a journalist in the early 1980s. He became literary editor of Les Inrockuptibles in 1995, and eventually its editor-in-chief. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including seven novels, and is a regular contributor to Le Monde, Le Point, Le Magazine littéraire, and Tablet. His second novel, Chaos, was a semi-biographical work about his cousin Serge Doubrovsky. In 2014, Weitzmann wrote "France's Toxic Hate," a series of reports for Tablet Magazine on the rise of anti-Semitism in his country, which won the Berman Prize for Literary Journalism in 2015. At Philip Roth's suggestion, Weitzmann began writing a book based on his reporting. The French version of the work, Un temps pour Haïr (A Time for Hate) was published in 2018 in France. It won the Prix du livre politique étudiant-France Culture 2019, and was short-listed for the Prix Renaudot and Prix Femina. The English version was published the same year in the USA under the title Hate: The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism in France. The book was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice.