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Bialystoker communities
Bialystoker communities
Communities formed wherever Bialystok Jews gathered worldwide.
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I would dare say that even foreign lands were
aware of Bialystok’s singularity. In New York, for
example, there are several hundred organized Jewish
landsmanschaften, but not one of them is as sophisti-
cated and as versatile as the Bialystoker Center. The
same is true of our landsmanschaft in Chicago. All over
the world, in fact, wherever a few Bialystoker Jews
gather, regardless of their number, they immediately
organize themselves into a colony, in touch with other
Bialystoker communities and with their birthplace. ...Connected nodes