Yiddish Paris : Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France /

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"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...

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Main Author: Underwood, Nick, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Yiddish language.
Jews.
Ethnic relations.
HISTORY / Jewish
Yiddish (Langue) > France > Paris.
Yiddishistes > France > Paris > Vie intellectuelle.
Juifs polonais > France > Paris > Vie intellectuelle.
Juifs > France > Paris > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Yiddish language > France > Paris.
Yiddishists > France > Paris > Intellectual life.
Jews, Polish > France > Paris > Intellectual life.
Jews > France > Paris > History > 20th century.
France > Paris.
Paris (France) > Ethnic relations.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Yiddish culture, interwar Paris, and the crisis of belonging
  • 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 resistance - the Yiddish culture of antifascism in interwar Paris
  • Epilogue: The Marianne of Yiddishland.

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