Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora

Index

Abrahamson, Wolf,  Abramovitsh, Rafa’el,  Adack, Ida, , ,  Ahavat Achim (New York),  Aleichem, Sholem,  Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lita, Poyln un Rusland (General Jewish worker’s Union in Lithuania, Poland, and Russia). See Bund Alpert, Anna,  American Federation of Polish Jews,  American Jewish Committee, ,  American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC): in Bialystok, –, , –; in Australia,  Anderson, Benedict, , ,  Anshei Chesed (New York),  Ansky, S., ,  Anthony, Susan B.,  antisemitism, –, –, –, , –. See also Holocaust; pogroms Aran, Yehezkel,  Argentina, –; landsmanshaftn in, –; Catholicism of, –, –; Jewish Colonization Association in, –; Jewish immigration to, –; Jewish farming colonies in, ; Textile industry, –. See also Bialystoker Farband, Bialistoker vegn, Buenos Aires, Moisesville, Y. L. Peretz Folkshule Aronson, I. Michael,  Arye, Michael, – Asch, Sholem,  Australia, –, –; immigration policies of, –. See also Melbourne Avellaneda, Nicolás,  Aviv, Caryn,  Azuma, Eiichiro,  Baku (Soviet Union),  Baron, Salo,  Beker, Israel,  Bender, Thomas,  Bes Kneses Anshey Bialistok (Synagogue of the People of Bialystok [New York]),  Beys Midrash Beys Yosef (Bialystok),  Biała River,  Bialistoker arbeter, Der, (Bialystok) – Bialistoker Farband un Credit Cooperativ La Textil (Bialystoker Organization and Credit Union for Textiles), –; and Bialystoker identity, –; creation of, ; cultural and educational institutions of, –; makes loans, –; philanthropy of,  Bialistoker fraynd, Der (The Bialystoker Comrade [New York]), ,  Bialistoker tageblat (Bialystok Daily News),  Bialistoker vegn (The Ways of Bialystok [Buenos Aires]), – ,  Bialystok pre-: Bund in, –; descriptions of, –; Germanization of, –; growth of, –; Jewish charity in, – (see also Lines Hatsedek); Jewish immigration to, –, ; Jewish organizational life in, –, –, ; Jews in economic life of, –; Jews and Index 352 INDEX labor relations in, –; legal and political regimes of, –; representativeness of, , ; Russification of, – First World War, – –: and interwar Polish government, –; kehilla of, – post-, –. See also Bialystok Jewish Regional Committee; Shimon Datner Holocaust in, – images (literary) of: as colonial power, –, –, –; as holy city, –; in s, – Jewish emigration from, xvi Jewish population of, , , , , , , , , –,  Landsmanshaftn of. See names of organizations perpetuate Bialystok, after , – views of, , , ,  See also diaspora; empire; exile; philanthropy; pogroms; transnationalism Bialystok Association for Land Purchases, ,  Bialystok Jewish Regional Committee, –; founds Jewish school, , ; Passover seder of (), , ; rebuilds Jewish institutions , –. See also Shimon Datner Bialystoker Ball (Melbourne), – Bialystoker Bikur Holim of Brooklyn, –; resistance of, to joining Bialystoker Center, – Bialystoker Bikur Holim of the Lower East Side, – Bialystoker Center (New York),  certificate of donation to,  changing mission of, –, – domination of, by David Sohn, – formation of, –, ,  images of, , ,  Ladies’ Auxiliary of, , , – , , , –,  links charity and sociability, – philanthropy of aided by Ladies’ Auxiliary, – as consumption, –, – as public performance, – ,  during interwar years, – transformation of, into old-age home, – See also Bialystoker Relief Committee; Philanthropy Bialystoker Center and Bikur Holim. See Bialystoker Center (New York) Bialystoker Centre (Melbourne), ; formation of, ; sponsors Jewish immigration to Australia, –; funded by Bialystoker Center (New York), –; and David Sohn, –. See also Ada Kanyzyski Kagan; Leo Fink; Michael Pitt; Abraham Zbar Bialystoker Centre of Palestine, – Bialystoker Farband (Berlin),  Bialystoker Farband (Buenos Aires). See Bialistoker Farband un Credit Cooperativ La Textil Bialystoker heym (Bialystoker Home [New York]),  Bialystoker Immigration Fund,  Bialystoker Lay Kassa (Melbourne): aids Jewish immigration, ; balls of, –; and Bialystoker identity, –; financial role of, ; founding of, ; and social integration, –. See also Bialystoker Center 353 INDEX (Melbourne); Michael Pitt; Leo Fink; Abraham Zbar Bialystoker Relief Committee, , , , –, –, , ,  Der Bialystoker Stimme: adds English pages, ; artwork of, –  , – ; creates trans-national community, –; creation of, –; metaphors for Bialystok in, –, –; perpetuates Bialystok, after , –. See also David Sohn; press Bialystoker Unterstitzungs Verein Somach Noflim, , , –,  Bialystoker Young Men’s Association,  Bigelman, David, ,  Bikur Holim (Bialystok), – Bloch, Sender,  Bnos Tsiyion (daughters of Zion), – Bogdonovsky, L. H.,  Boyarin, Daniel, ,  Boyarin, Jonathan, , , – Brancki Palace, , ,  Branicki, Count Jan Klemens,  Brisk [Brest-Litovsk],  Buenos Aires (Argentina), , , –, –, , , , ; absence of industry in, ; diasporic mentality of Jews in, –; failure of first Bialystoker landsmanshaft in, ; Jewish immigration to, ; landsmanshaftn in, –; textile industry, –; Villa Lynch (neighborhood ), –. See also Bialystoker Farband; Bialistoker vegn Bund: in Bialystok, –; religious rhetoric of, in Bialystok, – Byalistok: bilder album fun a barimter shtot un ire iden iber der velt (Bialystok: Photo Album of a Renowned City and its Jews the World Over []), –,  Byalistoker froyen zhurnal,  Caldwell, Arthur, ,  Centralny Komitet Zydów w Polsce (Central Committee for Jews in Poland [CKZP]), , ,  Chaikan, Joseph, , –, – Charney, Daniel,  Chata Polska (Polish Hut [Bialystok]), – Chazanowitz, Dr. Joseph, , , ; vision of, for Lines Hatsedek, –; Jewish National Library,  Chicago, –, , , , ,  Chile, – Cleveland (Ohio),  Club Bialystok (Tel Aviv). See Palestine Cohen, Louis,  colonialism, imagery of. See Bialystok; empire; David Sohn Datner, Shimon, –,  Daughters of Israel,  Des Pres, Terrence, ,  Detroit, ,  diaspora: in classical Jewish literature, –; misuses of, –; in scholarly literature (see diaspora studies); and Zionists, – diaspora studies, –, –, –, , – Dimov, Osip,  Diner, Hasia, ,  Displaced Persons Act,  Dovesh, Muttel, –,  Doykeyt...