Jewish Bialystok and Its DiasporaIndiana 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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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 |