Nick Underwood
Associate Professor and Raddock Chair for Holocaust Studies
Areas of Expertise
- Modern European Jewish History
- Holocaust History
- Yiddish History and Cultural Studies听
Email:
nunderwood@fau.edu
Phone:
听561-297-3840
Nick Underwood is an Associate Professor of History and holds the Raddock听
Family Chair for Holocaust Studies. Underwood specializes in twentieth century European听
Jewish history, with a focus on Yiddish culture and Yiddish-speaking immigrant Jews in France.听
He is author of Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France (Indiana University Press, 2022), which was named a Finalist for a National Jewish Book Award in 2023.听
He is also a co-editor (with Meredith Scott) of the edited volume Jewish Ideas of France:听
Migration, Diaspora, and Empire (Routledge, 2025). He is currently working on two new book听
projects, "Jewish Migration, Yiddish Culture, and the Reconstruction of Post-Holocaust France,听
1944-1965鈥 and 鈥Community Development as Antifascism: The Rue Amelot and Jewish听
Resistance in Vichy and Nazi Occupied France.鈥 In addition to these book publications, he has听
co-edited special issues of journals on topics ranging from Yiddish theatre, Jewish urban听
histories, and the cultures of global antifascism. His work has also been published in a number of听
peer reviewed journals, including Archives Juives, Contemporary French Civilization, East 听
European Jewish Affairs, French Politics, Culture & Society, Jewish Culture and History, Jewish 听
Social Studies, Journal of Jewish Identities, Theatre Survey, and Urban History as well as in 听
several edited volumes. 听
Underwood鈥檚 research has been supported by fellowships from the American Philosophical听
Society, the Idaho Humanities Council, Brandeis University鈥檚 Hadassah-Brandeis Institute,听
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern听
University, European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, Western Society for French History听
听as well as a Fordham University-New York Public Library Short-Term Research Fellowship and 听
the Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship in East European Jewish Arts, Music, and Theatre from听
the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Simon听
Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at 听Leipzig University. During the 2026-2027听
academic year, he was awarded a Fulbright US Scholar Award to be in residence at the 听
University of Warsaw in Poland.听
Before coming to 91制片厂, he was an Assistant Professor of History at The College of Idaho where听
he held the Berger-Neilsen Chair in Judaic Studies.听
Curriculum Vitae (Available upon request)