RS114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Israelites, Jewish Diaspora, African Diaspora
3 Oct 2016
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The word diaspora refers to all of the places that jews have lived throughout their long history, excluding their ancestral homeland, the land of israel. Diaspora represents the place even though it is, in fact, many different places where jews have made and continue to make their homes, displaced from their original place. One can also speak about the chinese diaspora, the african diaspora, or the brooklyn diaspora (for people who are from brooklyn, feel connected to it, but live elsewhere). In 1900, most of the world"s jews lived in europe. Russia exploded in the first two decades of the 20th century, making north. America the largest jewish population center before wwii. It was, proportionally, all the larger by the war"s end, when most of eastern european. In the post-war decades, israel has become the second center of world jewry, absorbing most of the jews from the middle east and.
