Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora

Name: Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora
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ISBN: 9780253221766

ISBN-10: 0253221765

ISBN-13: 9780253221766

Edition: 2010

Authors: Rebecca Kobrin

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The mass migration of east European Jews and their resettlement in cities throughout Europe, the United States, Argentina, and Australia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries not only transformed the demographic and cultural centers of world Jewry, it also reshaped Jews' understanding and performance of their diasporic identities. Rebecca Kobrin's study of the dispersal of Jews from one city in Poland -- Bialystok -- 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. Kobrin explores the organizations,…

Book details

List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 5/7/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 380
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Note on Orthography and Transliteration


Introduction: 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 Bialystok Jewish Press, 1921-1949



Shifting Centers, Conflicting Philanthropists: Rebuilding, Resettling, and Remembering Jewish Bialystok in the Post-Holocaust Era


Epilogue: Diaspora and the Politics of East European Jewish Identity in the Age of Mass Migration


Notes


Bibliography


Index