ISBN:
9780253004284
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (385 pages)
Series Statement:
Modern Jewish Experience
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.696438
Keywords:
Jews History
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Jewish diaspora History 20th century
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Jews Migrations 20th century
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History
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Jews, Polish Cultural assimilation
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Jews Migrations
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History
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Białystok (Poland) ; Ethnic relations
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Jewish diaspora ; History ; 20th century
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Jews ; Migrations ; History ; 20th century
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Jews ; Poland ; Białystok ; History
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Jews ; Poland ; Białystok ; Migrations ; History
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Jews, Polish ; Cultural assimilation ; Foreign countries
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Electronic books
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Białystok (Poland) Ethnic relations
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Orthography and Transliteration -- Introduction Between Exile and Empire -- Chapter1 The Dispersal Within -- Chapter 2 Rebuilding Homeland in Promised Lands -- Chapter 3 "Buying Bricks for Bialystok -- Chapter 4 Rewriting the Jewish Diaspora -- Chapter 5 Shifting Centers, Conflicting Philanthropists -- Epilogue Diaspora and the Politics of East European Jewish Identity in the Age of Mass Migration -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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