Yiddish Paris: staging nation and community in interwar France
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 -- Epi...
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| Формат: | Print |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Bloomington, Indiana
Indiana University Press
2022
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| В: | Год: 2022 |
| Обзоры: | [Rezension von: Underwood, Nicholas, Yiddish Paris : staging nation and community in interwar France] (2023) (Grumberg, Zoé)
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| Серии журналов/журналы: | The modern Jewish experience
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| Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности): | B
Frankreich
/ Париж (мотив)
/ Евреи (мотив)
/ Поляки (народ)
/ Идиш
/ Духовная жизнь
/ История (мотив) 1920-1950
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| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Yiddishists (France) (Париж (мотив))
Intellectual life
B Paris (France) Ethnic relations B Jews, Polish (France) (Париж (мотив)) Intellectual life B Yiddish language (France) (Париж (мотив)) B Jews (France) (Париж (мотив)) History 20th century |
| Итог: | 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 "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"-- |
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| Примечание: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 025305978X |