Bolivia admitted approximately 10,000 Holocaust era Jewish refugees, many of them artists and musicians who settled in of La Paz, the capital city situated 12,000 feet above sea level in the Andes Mountains. Jennifer Steil discovered their largely untold story in 2012, when her husband, a European Union diplomat was posted there.
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Jennifer Steil is a British-American writer living in Uzbekistan, France, and the UK. She’s the author of the novel Exile Music, which won Grand Prize in the Eyelands 2020 Book Awards; the Multicultural International Book Award; and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Lesbian Fiction Award. Her previous books include the novel The Ambassador’s Wife and the memoir The Woman Who Fell From the Sky. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, New Orleans Review, Saranac Review, Kenyon Review, World Policy Journal, Gay & Lesbian Review, The Week, Time, Life, Peauxdunque Review, The Washington Times, Vogue UK, Die Welt, New York Post, The Rumpus, Mystery Magazine Weekly, Irish National Radio, France 24 (English), and CBS radio.
