Between 1936 and 1938, Jewish Communists in Paris began a formal campaign to encourage children to participate in their Yiddish community-building project, as a means of engaging whole families, especially women. The use of both Yiddish and French in the Communist Yiddish-language daily newspaper Naye prese and the work of children's poet Dovid Pliskin shows how Jewish Communists in Paris, surprisingly, tried to expose a wide range of Yiddish speakers in Paris to what might be seen as a particular and distinctive sort of diaspora nationalism. Additionally, the study of Jewish children in interwar Paris sheds new light on intersections and overlap between Yiddishspeaking immigrant Jews and the French left. Copyright © 2017 The Trustees of Indiana University.

Yiddish Diaspora nationalism Popular Front Naye prese Children Paris

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