Word Finder - diaspora

definition

The dispersion of the Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian captivity (6th century B.C.E.).

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(by extension) Any similar dispersion.

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The African diaspora caused a melding of cultures, both African cultures and Western ones, in many places.

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(collective) A group so dispersed, especially Jews outside of the land of Israel.

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The regions where such a dispersed group (especially the Jews) resides, taken collectively.

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Jews in the diaspora often have a different perspective of anti-Semitism from Israeli Jews.

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Any dispersion of an originally homogeneous entity, such as a language or culture.

If we resort solely to Judaism for explanation, it must be a Judaism of the Diaspora type.

The .Maccabaeans used compulsion in some cases, but Judaism in the Diaspora was a missionary religion in the less militant sense.

The Irish have suffered one of the great diaspora ever inflicted on a nation.

The Turkish diaspora in Europe is broadly comparable to the South Asian diaspora in Europe in several respects.

The one solid fact in this connexion is the translation of the Jewish Law into Greek in the 3rd century B.C., implying a Jewish Diaspora at Alexandria, so far Hellenized as to have forgotten the speech of Palestine.

In Croatia, around 30 parliamentary seats are held by Diaspora members, yet, we, hold none in Macedonia.

In the Diaspora admission of converts may have been made easy, circumcision being sometimes omitted, but the conditions became gradually more severe, until they reached their present form.

But Samuel's fame rests on the service which he rendered in adapting the life of the Jews of the diaspora to the law of the land.

To counter such conflation, artistic director of the Hub UK, Andrew Missingham proposed expanding the notion of diaspora to include 'white' communities.

A 1935 film called Rumba showed a form of the dance and started the diaspora of this type of movement beyond Cuba.