Jewish Bialystok and its diaspora
By: Rebecca Kobrin.
Series: The modern Jewish experience
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253354426; 9780253221766
Subjects: 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; Białystok (Poland) -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The dispersal within: Bialystok, Jewish migration, and the reformation of 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, empire, and the politics of Jewish identity in the age of mass migration.