Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora

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Indiana University Press, 7 трав. 2010 р. - 380 стор.

The mass migration of East European Jews and their resettlement in cities throughout Europe, the United States, Argentina, the Middle East 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, institutions, newspapers, and philanthropies that the Bialystokers created around the world and that reshaped their perceptions of exile and diaspora.

 

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Introduction Between Exile and Empire
1
Chapter1 The Dispersal Within
19
Chapter 2 Rebuilding Homeland in Promised Lands
69
Chapter 3 Buying Bricks for Bialystok
131
Chapter 4 Rewriting the Jewish Diaspora
176
Chapter 5 Shifting Centers Conflicting Philanthropists
207
Epilogue Diaspora and the Politics of East European Jewish Identity in the Age of Mass Migration
244
Notes
253
Note on Orthography and Transliteration
xiii
Introduction Between Exile and Empire
1
Chapter1 The Dispersal Within
19
Chapter 2 Rebuilding Homeland in Promised Lands
69
Chapter 3 Buying Bricks for Bialystok
131
Chapter 4 Rewriting the Jewish Diaspora
176
Chapter 5 Shifting Centers Conflicting Philanthropists
207
Epilogue Diaspora and the Politics of East European Jewish Identity in the Age of Mass Migration
244

Bibliography
313
Index
351
Contents
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
Notes
253
Bibliography
313
Index
351

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Rebecca Kobrin is Assistant Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University. She is author (with Adam Shear) of an exhibition catalog, From Written to Printed Text: The Transmission of Jewish Tradition.

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