Nick Underwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 905568 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Underwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Underwood |
| SIGNATURE | UNDERWOOD N |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Idaho |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Herminie and Fanny Pereire
Lacunas and Triangulation
Yiddish Paris
Hitler’s Refugees and the French Response, 1933–1938
Scholarly interest in issues related to European migration and how European states deal with or enact policies related to migrants has been on the rise in the past decade. Building upon the work of Carole Fink, Vicki Carron and Greg Burgess, among others, Julius Fein’s Hitler’s Refugees and the French Response, 1933–1938 seeks to determine how, exactly, France’s status of a ‘land of asylum’ played out in terms of foreign policy. What happens when…
A Design Challenge for Transforming Justice
Transforming Justice is a collaborative project that aims to challenge the dominant narratives of policing and segregation in Milwaukee through community workshops, visual arts and storytelling, and experimental mapping. This Practices and Curations contribution describes one of the project’s collaborations, a design challenge, that aimed to create and imagine new ways of visualizing (in)justice and place in Milwaukee. Engaging feminist principle…
David Shneer (1972–2020)
On November 4, 2020, David Shneer lost his battle with brain cancer at the age of forty-eight, thus depriving Jewish studies of a scholar, who, despite his age, significantly changed Jewish historical understanding. Shneer completed his PhD in history at the University of California Berkeley in 2001 and would go on to hold professional appointments at the University of Denver and the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU). At CU he held the Louis P…
The Yiddish Art Theatre in Paris after the Holocaust, 1944–1950
Almost as soon as Paris was liberated from Nazi Occupation on 25 August 1944, Yiddish actors took back the stages on which they had once performed. In fact, on 20 December 1944, while war and the Holocaust still raged, a small cohort of actors produced what they advertised in the Naye prese as the “first grand performance by the ‘Yiddish folks-bine .’” This performance was to take place at the four-hundred-seat Théâtre Lancry, a performance space…
Lending identity
This article traces the histories of three Yiddish-language libraries in 1930s Paris. Through an analysis of borrowing practices, holdings, and events, this article illustrates how the libraries of the Kultur-lige and Medem-farband functioned as vectors of culture and politics in interwar Paris. These Yiddish libraries created public and communal spaces within which people from all corners of the Yiddish-speaking Parisian world could sit and lear…
Introduction
Introduction: Looking Back Towards the Future: Fifty Years of Soviet Jewish Affairs/East European Jewish Affairs." East European Jewish Affairs, 50(3), pp. 273–274
Yiddish in the City
In contrast to most national cultures, modern Yiddish culture came into being in geographically disconnected landscapes and without the support of a nation state. Recently, scholars have begun to t
Post Holocaust Cultures
Our Most Beautiful Children
Between 1936 and 1938, Jewish Communists in Paris began a formal campaign to encourage children to participate in their Yiddish community-building project, as a means of engaging whole families, especially women. The use of both Yiddish and French in the Communist Yiddish-language daily newspaper Naye prese and the work of children’s poet Dovid Pliskin shows how Jewish Communists in Paris, surprisingly, tried to expose a wide range of Yiddish spe…
Exposing Yiddish Paris
During the 1930s, Paris was home to approximately two million immigrants. Around 150,000 of these were Yiddish-speaking Jews from Eastern Europe who used Paris as the basis for a new Western European influenced Yiddishism and Diaspora Nationalism. This paper traces the high point of that interwar Parisian Yiddish internationalist cultural development, the Modern Jewish Culture pavilion at the 1937 World's Fair. Through an analysis that places the…
Dressing the Modern Jewish Communist Girl in Interwar Paris
Aron Beckerman's City of Light
This article examines the writing of a little-known, but prolific interwar immigrant eastern European Parisian Yiddish writer, Aron Beckerman, to demonstrate how Yiddish journalism played a pivotal role in defining Paris as a simultaneously French and Jewish space to immigrant Jews living in the city. Engaging urban historical theory on the communal-building effect that public space can have, this article argues that within Beckerman's writings o…
Beyond the Pletzl
In the 1930s, Walter Benjamin described Paris as ‘the capital of the nineteenth century’, the hub of cultural transformations precipitated by the rise of industrial capitalism. For good reasons, Jewish historians have followed suit in identifying Paris as the focal point for studies of political, social, cultural, demographic and economic change in France during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Moreover, native French Jewish religious and …
A Design Challenge for Transforming Justice
Transforming Justice is a collaborative project that aims to challenge the dominant narratives of policing and segregation in Milwaukee through community workshops, visual arts and storytelling, and experimental mapping. This Practices and Curations contribution describes one of the project’s collaborations, a design challenge, that aimed to create and imagine new ways of visualizing (in)justice and place in Milwaukee. Engaging feminist principle…
Exposing Yiddish Paris
During the 1930s, Paris was home to approximately two million immigrants. Around 150,000 of these were Yiddish-speaking Jews from Eastern Europe who used Paris as the basis for a new Western European influenced Yiddishism and Diaspora Nationalism. This paper traces the high point of that interwar Parisian Yiddish internationalist cultural development, the Modern Jewish Culture pavilion at the 1937 World's Fair. Through an analysis that places the…
Aron Beckerman's City of Light
This article examines the writing of a little-known, but prolific interwar immigrant eastern European Parisian Yiddish writer, Aron Beckerman, to demonstrate how Yiddish journalism played a pivotal role in defining Paris as a simultaneously French and Jewish space to immigrant Jews living in the city. Engaging urban historical theory on the communal-building effect that public space can have, this article argues that within Beckerman's writings o…
Dressing the Modern Jewish Communist Girl in Interwar Paris
Beyond the Pletzl
In the 1930s, Walter Benjamin described Paris as ‘the capital of the nineteenth century’, the hub of cultural transformations precipitated by the rise of industrial capitalism. For good reasons, Jewish historians have followed suit in identifying Paris as the focal point for studies of political, social, cultural, demographic and economic change in France during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Moreover, native French Jewish religious and …
Aron Beckerman's City of Light
This article examines the writing of a little-known, but prolific interwar immigrant eastern European Parisian Yiddish writer, Aron Beckerman, to demonstrate how Yiddish journalism played a pivotal role in defining Paris as a simultaneously French and Jewish space to immigrant Jews living in the city. Engaging urban historical theory on the communal-building effect that public space can have, this article argues that within Beckerman's writings o…
Beyond the Pletzl
In the 1930s, Walter Benjamin described Paris as ‘the capital of the nineteenth century’, the hub of cultural transformations precipitated by the rise of industrial capitalism. For good reasons, Jewish historians have followed suit in identifying Paris as the focal point for studies of political, social, cultural, demographic and economic change in France during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Moreover, native French Jewish religious and …
Exposing Yiddish Paris
During the 1930s, Paris was home to approximately two million immigrants. Around 150,000 of these were Yiddish-speaking Jews from Eastern Europe who used Paris as the basis for a new Western European influenced Yiddishism and Diaspora Nationalism. This paper traces the high point of that interwar Parisian Yiddish internationalist cultural development, the Modern Jewish Culture pavilion at the 1937 World's Fair. Through an analysis that places the…
Dressing the Modern Jewish Communist Girl in Interwar Paris
Our Most Beautiful Children
Between 1936 and 1938, Jewish Communists in Paris began a formal campaign to encourage children to participate in their Yiddish community-building project, as a means of engaging whole families, especially women. The use of both Yiddish and French in the Communist Yiddish-language daily newspaper Naye prese and the work of children’s poet Dovid Pliskin shows how Jewish Communists in Paris, surprisingly, tried to expose a wide range of Yiddish spe…
Post Holocaust Cultures
The Yiddish Art Theatre in Paris after the Holocaust, 1944–1950
Almost as soon as Paris was liberated from Nazi Occupation on 25 August 1944, Yiddish actors took back the stages on which they had once performed. In fact, on 20 December 1944, while war and the Holocaust still raged, a small cohort of actors produced what they advertised in the Naye prese as the “first grand performance by the ‘Yiddish folks-bine .’” This performance was to take place at the four-hundred-seat Théâtre Lancry, a performance space…
Lending identity
This article traces the histories of three Yiddish-language libraries in 1930s Paris. Through an analysis of borrowing practices, holdings, and events, this article illustrates how the libraries of the Kultur-lige and Medem-farband functioned as vectors of culture and politics in interwar Paris. These Yiddish libraries created public and communal spaces within which people from all corners of the Yiddish-speaking Parisian world could sit and lear…
Introduction
Introduction: Looking Back Towards the Future: Fifty Years of Soviet Jewish Affairs/East European Jewish Affairs." East European Jewish Affairs, 50(3), pp. 273–274
Yiddish in the City
In contrast to most national cultures, modern Yiddish culture came into being in geographically disconnected landscapes and without the support of a nation state. Recently, scholars have begun to t
A Design Challenge for Transforming Justice
Transforming Justice is a collaborative project that aims to challenge the dominant narratives of policing and segregation in Milwaukee through community workshops, visual arts and storytelling, and experimental mapping. This Practices and Curations contribution describes one of the project’s collaborations, a design challenge, that aimed to create and imagine new ways of visualizing (in)justice and place in Milwaukee. Engaging feminist principle…
David Shneer (1972–2020)
On November 4, 2020, David Shneer lost his battle with brain cancer at the age of forty-eight, thus depriving Jewish studies of a scholar, who, despite his age, significantly changed Jewish historical understanding. Shneer completed his PhD in history at the University of California Berkeley in 2001 and would go on to hold professional appointments at the University of Denver and the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU). At CU he held the Louis P…
Yiddish Paris
Hitler’s Refugees and the French Response, 1933–1938
Scholarly interest in issues related to European migration and how European states deal with or enact policies related to migrants has been on the rise in the past decade. Building upon the work of Carole Fink, Vicki Carron and Greg Burgess, among others, Julius Fein’s Hitler’s Refugees and the French Response, 1933–1938 seeks to determine how, exactly, France’s status of a ‘land of asylum’ played out in terms of foreign policy. What happens when…
Lacunas and Triangulation
Herminie and Fanny Pereire
Judaism (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Archaeology (11 works) · History (10 works) · Art (9 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Yiddish (7 works)