Jewish Bialystok and its diaspora:
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Main Author: Kobrin, Rebecca (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Ind. Indiana University Press ©2010
Series:Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-350) and index
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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 361 pages)
ISBN:0253004284
0253221765
0253354420
9780253004284
9780253221766
9780253354426

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