Zaproszenie na spotkanie Zespołu Badań Transnarodowych

Zapraszamy na kolejne spotkanieZespołu Badań Transnarodowych,podczas którego referat pt. „Yiddish Culture and the Making of Postwar France” wygłosi dr Nick Underwood (Florida Atlantic University).  Seminarium odbędzie się w poniedziałek, 23 listopada o godz. 11:00 w Sali im. Kościuszki w Instytucie Historii PAN oraz online. Wystąpienie skomentuje prof. Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov (Instytut Historii PAN). 

Abstrakt wystąpienia: The largest Jewish population in postwar, post-Holocaust Europe was found in France and it was diverse, covering several years and layers of migration and integration into France. France’s postwar social, political, cultural, and linguistic context was also unique in Europe because it played host to so many different Jewish migrant, returnee, and survivor communities. This presentation will focus on the various ways that Yiddish-speaking Jews in France used Yiddish as a center piece to their recovery and community (re)building efforts. Through a focus on print, theatre, and institutional events, we will examine how Jews looked backwards while also looking forward as they sought to memorialize their fallen families and colleagues and also build a new Jewish European future that included Yiddish. 

Nick Underwood is associate professor of history and holds the Raddock Family Chair in Holocaust Studies at Florida Atlantic University. He is also currently a US Fulbright Scholar based at the University of Warsaw. 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). While in Warsaw, he is finishing research and writing on a new book titled „Jewish Migration, Yiddish Culture, and the Reconstruction of Post-Holocaust France, 1944-1965.” 

Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov – profesor zwyczajny w Instytucie Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN, pracowniczka naukowa Muzeum Getta Warszawskiego i redaktorka naczelna „Acta Poloniae Historica”. Autorka licznych publikacji z zakresu historii i kultury Żydów wschodnioeuropejskich.  Ostatnio wydała: Od Żydów w Polsce do Żydów polskich. „Hajnt” a przemiany tożsamości żydowskiej 1918-1939 (2025) i To Speak on Our Own Behalf: The Yiddish Press and the Creation of a Jewish National Identity in the Long Nineteenth Century (2026). 

Kontakt: transnationalinitiative@ihpan.edu.pl