2021
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Malena Chinski et al., « Un foyer artistique et intellectuel yiddish pour migrants rescapés, le 9 rue Guy-Patin (1947-1950) », Archives Juives, ID : 10670/1.fqhf5z
Among the tens of thousands of Jewish migrants from Central and Eastern Europe who came to Paris in the late 1940s were artists and intellectuals of Yiddish culture. Many of them became residents or habitual visitors of the “home for Jewish intellectuals” at 9 rue Guy-Patin in the Gare du Nord district. This article presents the first results of research on the “Yiddish period” of this place of socialization and residency between the spring of 1947 and the summer of 1950. By focusing on a particular address, this paper analyzes how migrants, many of whom were in transit, attempted to collectively reconstruct Polish Jewish intellectual and artistic life in post-Holocaust Paris.