Nick Underwood is assistant professor of history and holds the Berger-Neilson Chair in Judaic Studies at the College of Idaho. His first book, Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France, was published by Indiana University Press in 2022. It was selected as a National Jewish Book Award Finalist. He is also, with Meredith Scott, co-editor of the volume Jewish Ideas of France Migration, Diaspora, and Empire, which was published in 2025 by Routledge. He serves as managing editor for the journal American Jewish History and is the project manager for the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project (yiddishstage.org).
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Review
Review of Socialist Yiddishlands: Language Politics and Transnational Entanglements between 1941 and 1991, edited by Miriam Chorley-Schulz and Alexander Walther
Nick Underwood
Socialist Yiddishlands sets the stage for what could be a shift in how scholars think about the relationships among Yiddish, the Cold War, the effects of the Cold War on Jews around the world, the Soviet Bloc countries, and the lived realities of those who actively participated in the development of state socialism.
Jan 05, 2026
Article
Murder, Lust, and Laughter, or, Shund Theatre: A Special Issue of In geveb
Joel Berkowitz, Sonia Gollance and Nick Underwood
As the opening of the special issue on shund theater, this introduction situates the four articles and two translations in the history of the study of shund.
Apr 21, 2023
Blog
Briv funem Arkhiv: The Eiffel Tower Heads to the Suburbs
Nick Underwood
On this 1933 flyer for a Kultur-lige pariz event, a walking, talking Eiffel Tower exclaims, “All of Paris is going to the Kultur-lige’s excursion to Garches, and you want me to stay here?
Feb 21, 2020
