Jewish Bialystok and its diaspora / Rebecca Kobrin.

Author/creator Kobrin, Rebecca
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press,
Descriptionxiv, 361 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Jews--Poland. --Białystok. --History.
Jews--Poland. --Białystok. --Migrations. --History.
Jews, Polish--Cultural assimilation. --Foreign countries.
Jews--Migrations. --History. --20th century.
Jewish diaspora--History. --20th century.
Białystok (Poland)--Ethnic relations.

SeriesThe modern Jewish experience
Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.) ^A258137
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.
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LCCN 2009039149
ISBN9780253354426 (cloth : alk. paper)
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