Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora
by Rebecca Kobrin
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Rebecca Kobrin is the Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History at Columbia University. She is the author of Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora (2010), editor of Chosen Capital: The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism (2012), and coeditor of Purchasing Power: The Economics of Jewish History (2015).
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- Canonical title
- Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora
- Original publication date
- 2010
- Important places
- Białystok, Poland
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- Genres
- Anthropology, Nonfiction, History, Religion & Spirituality
- DDC/MDS
- 305.892 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Ethnic and national groups Other ethnic and national groups Semites
- LCC
- DS134.66 .B53 .K63 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Israel (Palestine). The Jews Jews outside of Palestine
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- Languages
- English, Polish, Russian
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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