Title Jewish Bialystok and its diaspora / Rebecca Kobrin

Published Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 361 pages) : illustrations, maps Series The modern Jewish experience Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.) 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-350) and index Notes Print version record Subject 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 SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Ethnic relations Jewish diaspora Jews Jews -- Migrations SUBJECT Białystok (Poland) -- Ethnic relations Subject Poland -- Białystok Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780253004284 0253004284 1282576984 9781282576988

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