Jewish Bialystok and its diaspora

Jewish Bialystok and its diaspora / Rebecca Kobrin.

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 homelan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kobrin, Rebecca
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2010.
Series:Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)
Subjects:
1900 - 1999
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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ethnic relations
Jewish diaspora
Jews
Jews > Migrations
Białystok (Poland) > Ethnic relations.
Poland > Białystok
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Description
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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 361 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-350) and index.
ISBN:9780253004284
0253004284
1282576984
9781282576988
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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