Anselme, Daniel

Daniel Anselme was born Daniel Rabinovitch in 1927, and adopted the name Anselme while serving in the French Resistance with his father. Anselme traveled widely as a journalist, and was known as a raconteur and a habitue of Left Bank cafes. A vocal protester of France s war with Algeria, he addressed the war in "On Leave" (1957), his first novel. Anselme published a second novel, "Relations", in 1964; ran the journal "Les Cahiers de Mai" from 1968 to 1974; and was one of the leaders of Solidarity Radio in Paris in 1981 82. He published a semiautobiographical account of his wartime experiences