{"product_id":"yiddish-paris-staging-nation-and-community-in-interwar-france-hardback-9780253059789","title":"Yiddish Paris; Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France (Hardback) 9780253059789","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eYiddish Paris\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eStaging Nation and Community in Interwar France\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNick Underwood (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253059789\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 March 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e266 pages, 4 b\u0026amp;w illus. - 4 Illustrations, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.499 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone with a serious interest in the Yiddish diaspora from Eastern Europe and Russia should treat this as required reading.\u003c\/p\u003e (The Reading Life) \u003cp\u003eNick Underwood's \u003ci\u003eYiddish Paris\u003c\/i\u003e offers readers a wealth of information about the development of Eastern European Jewish immigrant cultural institutions in Paris between the World Wars.\u003c\/p\u003e - Jeffrey Haus (H-France) \u003cp\u003eNick Underwood's excellent book restores the place of Paris as a major center of Yiddish life in the interwar period.... This volume is rich and generous in its sources and opens new directions of study.\u003c\/p\u003e - Julia Elsky (French Politics, Culture and Society) \u003cp\u003eUnderwood's book is an important contribution to the field of Jewish and Yiddish studies....\u003c\/p\u003e - Zoé Grumberg (AJS Review) \u003cp\u003eUnderwood's faithful chronicling of Yiddish life in Paris brings it into the scholarly and general imagination of twentieth century Yiddish culture, which usually centers Eastern Europe or the so-called New World.\u003c\/p\u003e - Sarah Biskowitz (In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYiddish Paris\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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,\" mostly left-wing Jews from Socialist and Communist backgrounds who created cultural and scholarly organizations and institutions, including the French branch of YIVO (a research institution focused on East European Jews), theater troupes, choruses, and a pavilion at the Paris World's Fair of 1937.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYiddish Paris\u003c\/i\u003e examines how these left-wing Yiddish-speaking Jews insisted that even in France, a country known for demanding the assimilation of immigrant and minority groups, they could remain a distinct group, part of a transnational Yiddish-speaking Jewish nation. Yet, in the process, they in fact created a French-inflected version of Jewish diaspora nationalism, finding allies among French intellectuals, largely on the left.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments: Yiddish Culture, Interwar Paris, and the Crisis of Belonging\u003cbr\u003eList of Organizations and Groups Named by Acronym\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Institutionalizing Yiddish Cultural Life in Paris\u003cbr\u003e2. Cultural and Intellectual Strongholds Are Stronger than all Others\u003cbr\u003e3. Drama in Yiddish Paris\u003cbr\u003e4. Singing for the People and Against Fascism\u003cbr\u003e5. Parisian Yiddish Culture on the World's Stage\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: From Rassemblement to Résistance\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: The Marianne of Yiddishland\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525363396888,"sku":"9780253059789","price":67.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/yiddish-paris-staging-nation-and-community-in-interwar-france-hardback-9780253059789","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}