RT Book
T1 Yiddish Paris: staging nation and community in interwar France
T2 The modern Jewish experience
A1 Underwood, Nicholas 1977-
LA English
PP Bloomington, Indiana
PB Indiana University Press
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1762831937
AB Institutionalizing Yiddish Cultural Life in Paris -- Cultural and Intellectual Strongholds Are Stronger Than All Others -- Drama in Yiddish Paris -- Singing for the People and Against Fascism -- Parisian Yiddish Culture on the World's Stage -- Conclusion: From Rassemblement to Résistance -- Epilogue: The Marianne of Yiddishland
AB "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," 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. Yiddish Paris 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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN DS135.F83
SN 9780253059789
SN 9780253059796
K1 Jews : France : Paris : History : 20th century
K1 Jews, Polish : France : Paris : Intellectual life
K1 Yiddishists : France : Paris : Intellectual life
K1 Yiddish language : France : Paris
K1 Paris (France) : Ethnic relations