Nick Underwood

Nick Underwood Publishes Article in French Politics, Culture & Society

Anonymous — Tue, 31 May 2016 20:27:55 +0000

Nick Underwood Publishes Article in French Politics, Culture & Society Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 05/31/2016 - 14:27

Nick Underwood, recent Ph.D. in History with a Graduate Endorsement from the Program in Jewish Studies at CU-Boulder, published his first peer-reviewed journal article "Dressing the Modern Jewish Communist Girl in Interwar Paris" in a special issue of French Politics, Culture & Society.

Nick will continue on as Project Manager for the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project and serve as Managing Editor for East European Jewish Affairs.

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Nick Underwood Gives Talk on Yiddish Culture and Interwar Paris at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 17:18:11 +0000

Nick Underwood Gives Talk on Yiddish Culture and Interwar Paris at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 03/30/2016 - 11:18

Nick Underwood, Ph.D. Candidate in History, presented the Max Weinreich Fellowship Lecture at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research on March 16, 2016.

Nick's paper, “Yiddish Culture and Interwar Paris: The 1937 World’s Fair & The Modern Jewish Culture Pavilion,” argues that interwar Paris was an exciting, yet widely under-examined hub of immigrant Yiddish culture. During the 1920s and 1930s, approximately 150,000 immigrant Jews from eastern and central Europe came to Paris, transforming themselves from a disparate group of immigrants unsure of their place in France to a community connected and coalesced around a new, transnational Western European, Yiddish diaspora nationalism. Based on what is the first cultural history of the immigrant Jewish community in Paris, this talk will discuss the Modern Jewish Culture Pavilion at the 1937 World's Fair - a virtually unknown exhibition of global Yiddish culture. Constructed specifically for World's Fair, the Modern Jewish Culture Pavilion put Yiddish Paris on the world stage, and highlighted the communal power that culture could have for immigrant Jews in 1920s and 1930s Paris.

Nick will publish an article on this aspect of his research in Issue 2 (2016) of East European Jewish Affairs, a special issue on “Global Yiddish Culture.”

On April 20, 2016, Nick will defend his dissertation, "Staging a New Community: Immigrant Yiddish Culture and Diaspora Nationalism in Interwar Paris, 1919-1940" as the final requirement for the PhD in the Department of History at CU-Boulder.

After graduation, he has a few things lined up. He will continue on as Project Manager for the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project and serve as Managing Editor for East European Jewish Affairs. In fall 2016, he will teach Yiddish DILS at CU-Boulder and at Napa Valley College. In spring, he will teach Modern European Jewish history at Sonoma State University. In fall 2016 he will deliver an invited talk at the University of California, Berkeley’s Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. Nick's talk is entitled, "From Shund to Avant-garde: Yiddish Theatre in the City of Light."

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Nick Underwood Publishes Article in Urban History, to Present at Upcoming AJS in Boston

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 18:36:05 +0000

Nick Underwood Publishes Article in Urban History, to Present at Upcoming AJS in Boston Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 12/08/2015 - 11:36

Cambridge University Press' Urban History, has published via Firstview (their digital, pre-print publishing method) the special section titled "Beyond the Pletzl: Jewish Urban Histories of Interwar France,” which History and Jewish Studies PhD Candidate Nick Underwood, along with Meredith Scott-Weaver and Erin Corber, produced. The section includes three articles and a group introduction featuring Nadia Malinovich. Nick's article is titled "Aron Beckerman's City of Light: writing French history and dening immigrant Jewish space in interwar Paris." The print version will be published in an issue of Urban History in 2016.

Nick also presented a paper at the Association for Jewish Studies conference in Boston, entitled "A Workers Avant-Garde: Yiddish Theatre and Transnational Jewish Culture in Interwar Paris"

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Nick Underwood invited to participate in graduate workshop at Center for Jewish History

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 16:59:10 +0000

Nick Underwood invited to participate in graduate workshop at Center for Jewish History Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 08/28/2015 - 10:59

PhD candidate in European and Jewish history, Nick Underwood was invited to participate in the the Graduate Student Workshop in Modern Jewish History at the Center for Jewish History in New York this coming October.

In other recent news, his article "Aron Beckerman's City of Light: Writing French History and Defining Immigrant Jewish Space in Interwar Paris” was accepted for publication in the journal Urban History. It is scheduled for publication in 2016.

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Nicholas Underwood selected to participate in International Forum of Young Scholars

Anonymous — Thu, 28 May 2015 22:25:49 +0000

Nicholas Underwood selected to participate in International Forum of Young Scholars Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 05/28/2015 - 16:25

Nicholas Underwood, PhD Candidate in History, was selected to participate in the Seventh Session of The International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry hosted by the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University, taking place June 29 - July 2.

The forum’s purpose is to promote the research and career progress of promising young scholars from all countries. It is an ongoing forum, comprised of 15 advanced Ph.D. students (ABD) and recent Ph.D.s (before tenure-track appointments). It meets periodically and is intended to allow young scholars an opportunity for cross-fertilization in their fields with their own peers and with an esteemed group of senior scholars led by Profs. Israel Bartal, Dan Diner, David Engel, Zvi Gitelman, Oleg Budnitskii, and Gabriella Safran.

The sessions are co-sponsored by Boston University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Simon Dubnow Institute of Jewish History at the University of Leipzig.

Learn More About the Forum Here

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Graduate Student Nick Underwood Receives Two Prestigious Awards

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:28:04 +0000

Graduate Student Nick Underwood Receives Two Prestigious Awards Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 03/11/2015 - 11:28

Nick Underwood, PhD Candidate in History, was recently granted two prestigious fellowships. Underwood received a dissertation fellowship from the James R., Anne M., and R. Jane Emerson (McCall) Student Support Fund in the Humanities, one of CU-Boulder's most distinguished graduate fellowships. He was also awarded the Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship in East European Jewish Arts, Music, and Theater (scroll down) from the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research.

Both fellowships will support Underwood's research for his dissertation, "Staging a New Community: Jewish Immigrant Culture in Interwar France, 1920-1940."

Congratulations Nick!

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Graduate student Nick Underwood's article accepted for publication

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 23:00:26 +0000

Graduate student Nick Underwood's article accepted for publication Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 01/06/2015 - 16:00

Nick Underwood, PhD Candidate in History, is excited to announce that his article "Dressing the Modern Jewish Communist Girl in Interwar Paris," was formally accepted for publication in the journal French Politics, Culture & Society. It will appear in 2016.

Nick will be teaching Intro to Jewish Studies at Sonoma State University in Spring 2015.

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Meet Nick Underwood, PhD Candidate in History

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 23:24:41 +0000

Meet Nick Underwood, PhD Candidate in History Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 11/06/2014 - 16:24

Nick Underwood, PhD Candidate in History, comes to CU from South Florida, and is currently completing his dissertation in Napa, CA.

Nick has been highly involved with the Program in Jewish Studies, both working in the Jewish Studies office and being a part of the graduate student programming offered by PJS. In summer 2012, Nick was part of a graduate student think-tank that created the graduate student colloquium. The idea was born from a demand for a forum in which graduate students from diverse departments but with interests in Jewish Studies could workshop current projects and learn professional development skills, such as writing a dissertation, conference proposal, journal article, etc. Nick states, "It has been a wonderful opportunity to create community among grad students and Jewish Studies faculty. Jewish Studies faculty regularly attend and contribute to the colloquium."

Nick's dissertation, which he plans to finish in 2015, is the first cultural history of the immigrant Jewish community in interwar Paris. Based on archival research in Paris, New York, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Tel Aviv, it focuses on interwar Paris as the hub of a particular French, transnational antifascist, and cosmopolitan Jewish culture, which is evaluated most clearly through an analysis of Paris-based Yiddish theater, choruses, newspapers, and cultural institutions. Nick's work engages the social and cultural history of the interwar Jewish experience in Paris to illustrate how culture acted not as a tool for indoctrination, but as a nexus for a community seeking to understand its new Jewish, French, and transnational identities. Specifically, his dissertation provides a more complete understanding of how immigrant Jews in Paris brought together Jewish, French, and leftist cultural norms in order to define their community as nationally French and transnationally Jewish and antifascist. His work questions the presumed monopoly of communist politics over leftist culture in 1939s Popular Front Paris.

In addition to finishing his dissertation, Nick has presented extensively at conferences, most recently giving a paper entitled "Radical Yiddish Culture in Interwar Paris" at UC Davis. This November, he will present a paper entitled "Reviewing The Incomprehensible: Yiddish Theater and the French-Language Press in Interwar Paris" at the Western Society for French History conference. He also currently has two journal articles under review.

Nick is currently teaching World Civilization II at Napa Valley College, and this Spring 2015 will teach Introduction to Jewish Studies as Sonoma State University. From 2013-2014, Nick served as a New York Public Library Short-term Research Fellow. He was also a recipient of a 2014-2015 Goldberger Fellowship from the Program in Jewish Studies at CU.

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