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Yiddish Paris

Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France

By: Nick Underwood

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Yiddish Paris

Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France

By: Nick Underwood

Yiddish 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 Jews from Socialist and Communist backgrounds who created cultural and scholarly organizations and institutions, including the French branch of YIVO (a research institution focused on East European Jews), theater troupes, choruses, and a pavilion at the Paris World's Fair of 1937. Yiddish Paris examines how these left-wing Yiddish-speaking Jews insisted that even in France, a country known for demanding the assimilation of immigrant and minority groups, they could remain a distinct group, part of a transnational Yiddish-speaking Jewish nation. Yet, in the process, they in fact created a French-inflected version of Jewish diaspora nationalism, finding allies among French intellectuals, largely on the left.

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268

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Indiana University Press

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025305981X

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9780253059819

Remembrance of Things Present

The Invention of the Time Capsule

By: Nick Yablon

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Remembrance of Things Present

The Invention of the Time Capsule

By: Nick Yablon

Time capsules offer unexpected insights into how people view their own time, place, and culture, as well as their duties to future generations. Remembrance of Things Present traces the birth of this device to the Gilded Age, when growing urban volatility prompted doubts about how the period would be remembered—or if it would be remembered at all. Yablon details how diverse Americans – from presidents and mayors to advocates for the rights of women, blacks, and workers – constructed prospective memories of their present. They did so by contributing not just written testimony to time capsules but also sources that historians and archivists considered illegitimate, such as photographs, phonograph records, films, and everyday artifacts. By offering a direct line to posterity, time capsules stimulated various hopes for the future. Remembrance of Things Present delves into these treasure chests to unearth those forgotten futures.

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415

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University of Chicago Press

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022657427X

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9780226574271

Meet Shaquille O'Neal

By: Publications International,Bob Castello,Consumer Guide,Nick Rousso,Matt Marsom

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Meet Shaquille O'Neal

By: Publications International,Bob Castello,Consumer Guide,Nick Rousso,Matt Marsom

A biography of one of basketball's hottest new stars.

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132

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Consumer Guide Books

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0451178998

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9780451178992

Basketball Almanac, 1993-94

By: Marty Strasen,Publications International,Consumer Guide,Matt Marson,Nick Rousso

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Basketball Almanac, 1993-94

By: Marty Strasen,Publications International,Consumer Guide,Matt Marson,Nick Rousso

Offers an in-depth preview of the forthcoming basketball season, featuring detailed information on NBA veterans and rookies, scouting reports on the top one hundred college players, and other highlights. Original.

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Signet

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0451177894

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9780451177896

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Yiddish Paris

Yiddish Paris

Remembrance of Things Present

Remembrance of Things Present

Meet Shaquille O'Neal

Meet Shaquille O'Neal

Basketball Almanac, 1993-94

Basketball Almanac, 1993-94

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