Jewish Bialystok and its diaspora
By: Rebecca Kobrin
Series: The modern Jewish experience; Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780253354426; 9780253221766
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Between exile and empire: visions of Jewish dispersal in the age of mass migration; title: The dispersal within: Bialystok, Jewish migration, and urban life in the borderlands of Eastern Europe; title: Rebuilding homeland in promised lands; title: "Buying bricks for Bialystok": philanthropy and the bonds of the new Jewish diaspora; title: Rewriting the Jewish diaspora: images of Bialystok in the transnational Bialystoker Jewish press, 1921-1949; title: Shifting centers, conflicting philanthropists: rebuilding, resettling, and remembering Jewish Bialystok in the post-Holocaust era; title: Diaspora and the politics of East European Jewish identity in the age of mass migration.