Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France by Nick Underwood Dictionaries comics artist and deli aficionado

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Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France by Nick Underwood Dictionaries comics artist and deli aficionadoYiddish 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