Nick Underwood

Associate Professor and Raddock Chair for Holocaust Studies

Areas of Expertise

  • Modern European Jewish History
  • Holocaust History
  • Yiddish History and Cultural Studies 

Email: nunderwood@fau.edu
Phone:  561-297-3840


Nick UnderwoodNick Underwood is an Associate Professor of History and holds the Raddock 
Family Chair for Holocaust Studies. Underwood specializes in twentieth century European 
Jewish history, with a focus on Yiddish culture and Yiddish-speaking immigrant Jews in France. 
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. 
He is also a co-editor (with Meredith Scott) of the edited volume Jewish Ideas of France: 
Migration, Diaspora, and Empire (Routledge, 2025). He is currently working on two new book 
projects, "Jewish Migration, Yiddish Culture, and the Reconstruction of Post-Holocaust France, 
1944-1965” and “Community Development as Antifascism: The Rue Amelot and Jewish 
Resistance in Vichy and Nazi Occupied France.” In addition to these book publications, he has 
co-edited special issues of journals on topics ranging from Yiddish theatre, Jewish urban 
histories, and the cultures of global antifascism. His work has also been published in a number of 
peer reviewed journals, including Archives Juives, Contemporary French Civilization, East  
European Jewish Affairs, French Politics, Culture & Society, Jewish Culture and History, Jewish  
Social Studies, Journal of Jewish Identities, Theatre Survey, and Urban History as well as in  
several edited volumes.  

Underwood’s research has been supported by fellowships from the American Philosophical 
Society, the Idaho Humanities Council, Brandeis University’s Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, 
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern 
University, European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, Western Society for French History 
 as well as a Fordham University-New York Public Library Short-Term Research Fellowship and  
the Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship in East European Jewish Arts, Music, and Theatre from 
the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Simon 
Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at  Leipzig University. During the 2026-2027 
academic year, he was awarded a Fulbright US Scholar Award to be in residence at the  
University of Warsaw in Poland. 

Before coming to FAU, he was an Assistant Professor of History at The College of Idaho where 
he held the Berger-Neilsen Chair in Judaic Studies. 

Curriculum Vitae (Available upon request)