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1 online resource (xiv, 361 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
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The modern Jewish experience
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Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-350) and index. |
Contents |
Between exile and empire: visions of Jewish dispersal in the age of mass migration -- The dispersal within: Bialystok, Jewish migration, and urban life in the borderlands of Eastern Europe -- Rebuilding homeland in promised lands -- "Buying bricks for Bialystok": philanthropy and the bonds of the new Jewish diaspora -- Rewriting the Jewish diaspora: images of Bialystok in the transnational Bialystoker Jewish press, 1921-1949 -- Shifting centers, conflicting philanthropists: rebuilding, resettling, and remembering Jewish Bialystok in the post-Holocaust era -- Diaspora and the politics of East European Jewish identity in the age of mass migration. |
Summary |
Kobrin's study of the dispersal of Jews from one city in Poland 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. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Jews -- Poland -- Bialystok -- History.
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Jews. |
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Poland -- Białystok. |
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History. |
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Jews -- Poland -- Bialystok -- Migrations -- History.
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Jews, Polish -- Cultural assimilation -- Foreign countries.
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Jews, Polish. |
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Assimilation (Sociology) |
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Foreign countries. |
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Jews -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century.
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Jews -- Migrations. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Jewish diaspora -- History -- 20th century.
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Jewish diaspora. |
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Białystok (Poland) -- Ethnic relations.
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Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Kobrin, Rebecca. Jewish Bialystok and its diaspora. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2010 9780253354426 (DLC) 2009039149 (OCoLC)419823781 |
ISBN |
9780253004284 |
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0253004284 |
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1282576984 |
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9781282576988 |
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9780253354426 |
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0253354420 |
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9780253221766 |
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0253221765 |
Standard No. |
9786612576980 |
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