Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France and get ready to laugh

and get ready to laugh as you finally begin to understand the inner-workings of Judaism

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and survival

demonstrated the ways in which Yiddish creativity simultaneously balanced the imperatives of mourning and revival after the Holocaust

" Born in present-day Belarus

Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France and get ready to laughBy Nick UnderwoodIndiana University PressPublished in 2022 266 pages, 8. 5 x 5. 5 in Paperback 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