“France”

Pedagogy

Writings of Destruction and Reconstruction in the Polish-Jewish Diaspora: The Case of Yankev (Jacob) Pat, Yiddish Author, Educator and Activist

Constance Pâris de Bollardière

This article serves as a biographical and bibliographical reference text to introduce readers to Yankev (Jacob) Pat’s life and career, with a focus on the early postwar years.

Review

Review of Nick Underwood's Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France

Sarah Biskowitz

Today's Yiddishists can find historical models for politically-engaged cultural activism in Nick Underwood's account of interwar Paris.

Texts & Translation

פּאַריז

Paris

Abraham Sutzkever

Translation by Annabel Cohen

Annabel Cohen translates Abraham Sutzkever's poem, "Paris."

Article

Double or Nothing: Jewish Speech and Silence in Georges Perec’s *W ou le souvenir d’enfance"

Marc Caplan

This article considers the phantom traces of Yiddish in Georges Perec's W ou le souvenir d’enfance (1975).

Blog

Notre Dame in Yiddish

Nick Underwood