商品簡介
"An imaginative and original work. It offers an intriguing argument that in the first half of the twentieth century, diaspora Jewish identities were defined through a constant, dynamic process of interaction between the place of origin and the several sites of immigration."uDEREK PENSLAR, University of Toronto
"Challenges and refines longstanding assumptions about Old World/New World dynamics generally and Jewish immigrants to America in particular...Original and smartly conceived, grounded in careful, extensive research and thoughtful analysis."uJEFFREY SHANDLER, Rutgers University
The mass migration of East European Jews and their resettlement in cities throughout Europe, the United States, Argentina, and Australia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth 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 PolanduBialystok-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.
作者簡介
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.
