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Materials relating to the Bialystocker Community. Six oversize photographs, one Yiddish typewriter.
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Material is unprocessed. Please contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
This collection is located on-site.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Bialystoker Community Archive; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
2016.2017.M157: Source of acquisition--Rebecca Kobrin. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--date.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Collection-level record describing unprocessed material made public in summer 2018 as part of the Hidden Collections initiative.
One box of published reference books was discarded due to mold (October 2019).
2020-06-08 Updated to reflect mold review and more precise description
The Bialystoker Center itself grew out efforts to provide foreign aid to the regions of Eastern Europe devastated by World War I. A Bialystoker Relief Committee was founded in 1919 to coordinate the work of existing Bialystoker landsmanshaft, and in 1921 this evolved into the Bialystoker Center, a new landsmanshaft created as an umbrella organization to oversee the other Bialystoker groups, provide a central meeting space, and direct their charitable and cultural programs. By the mid 1920s, with the recovery of Eastern Europe and the passage of national immigration restrictions, the Center's focus shifted to supporting the existing Jewish community in New York. A central component of this new mission was the creation of a Home for the Aged. Plans for a new building to house both the Bialystoker Center and the Home for the Aged were begun in 1927. The cornerstones were laid in 1929 and the completed building was inaugurated during a large ceremony in 1931.
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