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Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Kobrin is Assistant Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University. She is author (with Adam Shear) of an exhibition catalog, From Written to Printed Text: The Transmission of Jewish Tradition. Klappentext Kobrin explores the organizations, institutions, newspapers, and philanthropies that the Bialystokers created around the world and that reshaped their perceptions of exile and diaspora. Zusammenfassung Bialystok and its migrant communities Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Note on Orthography and Transliteration introduction: Between Exile and Empire: Visions of Jewish Dispersal in the Age of Mass Migration 1. The Dispersal Within: Bialystok, Jewish Migration, and Urban Life in the Borderlands of Eastern Europe 2. Rebuilding Homeland in Promised Lands 3. "Buying Bricks for Bialystok": Philanthropy and the Bonds of the New Jewish Diaspora 4. Rewriting the Jewish Diaspora: Images of Bialystok in the Transnational Bialystok Jewish Press, 1921¿1949 5. Shifting Centers, Conflicting Philanthropists: Rebuilding, Resettling, and Remembering Jewish Bialystok in the Post-Holocaust Era Epilogue: Diaspora and the Politics of East European Jewish Identity in the Age of Mass Migration Notes Bibliography Index
