Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France

by Nicholas Underwood and Nick Underwood

Book Overview

Yiddish Paris explores how Yiddish-speaking emigrants from Eastern Europe in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s created a Yiddish diaspora nation in Western Europe and how they presented that nation to themselves and to others in France.

In this meticulously researched and first full-length study of interwar Yiddish culture in France, author Nicholas Underwood argues that the emergence of a Yiddish Paris was depended on "culture makers,"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253059798
• ISBN13: 9780253059796
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher