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Author:

Kobrin, Rebecca.

Title:

Jewish Bialystok and its diaspora / Rebecca Kobrin.

Publisher:

Indiana University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xiv, 361 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Jews--Białystok--Białystok--History.
Jews--Białystok--Białystok--History.--History.
Jews, Polish--Cultural assimilation--Foreign countries.
Jews--History--History--20th century.
Jewish diaspora--History--20th century.
Białystok (Poland)--Ethnic relations.
Juden.
Białystok.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Between exile and empire: visions of Jewish dispersal in the age of mass migration -- The dispersal within: Bialystok, Jewish migration, and urban life in the borderlands of Eastern Europe -- Rebuilding homeland in promised lands -- "Buying bricks for Bialystok": philanthropy and the bonds of the new Jewish diaspora -- Rewriting the Jewish diaspora: images of Bialystok in the transnational Bialystoker Jewish press, 1921-1949 -- Shifting centers, conflicting philanthropists: rebuilding, resettling, and remembering Jewish Bialystok in the post-Holocaust era -- Diaspora and the politics of East European Jewish identity in the age of mass migration.

Summary:

Kobrin's study of the dispersal of Jews from one city in Poland demonstrates how the act of migration set in motion a wide range of transformations that led the migrants to imagine themselves as exiles not only from the mythic land of Israel but most immediately from their east European homeland.

Series:

The modern Jewish experience

ISBN:

0253221765 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780253221766 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0253354420 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253354426 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)419823781

LCCN:

2009039149

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)