Jewish Bialystok and its diaspora / Rebecca Kobrin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kobrin, Rebecca.

Series:

Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)

The modern Jewish experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Poland--Bialystok--History.

Jews.

Jewish diaspora.

History.

Jews--Migrations.

Jews, Polish.

Assimilation (Sociology).

Foreign countries.

Poland--Białystok.

Jews--Poland--Bialystok--Migrations--History.

Jews, Polish--Cultural assimilation--Foreign countries.

Jews--Migrations--History--20th century.

Jewish diaspora--History--20th century.

Białystok (Poland)--Ethnic relations.

Białystok (Poland).

Physical Description:

xiv, 361 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2010]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253354426

0253354420

9780253221766

0253221765

OCLC:

419823781