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| | Jewish diaspora: Just the facts... |
 | | The notion of diaspora (The dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)) is commonly accepted to have begun with the Babylonian Captivity (The deportation of the Jews to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC) in 597 BCE (additional info and facts about 597 BCE). | | | Subsequent numerous exiles and persecution, as well as political and economic conditions and opportinuties, affected the numbers and dynamics of Jewish diaspora. | | | Israel (Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine) 's Jewish population, though very diverse in background, is usually not considered as diaspora, was about 5,094,000 in 2003 |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/j/je/jewish_diaspora.htm
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| | The Jewish People as the Classic Diaspora: A Political Analysis |
| | Central to the reconstitution was the reestablishment of a Jewish commonwealth in Israel. | | | At the beginning of the Jewish diaspora, 2,500 years ago or more, it is very likely that Jews who spread beyond the limits of ongoing communication with their brethren (such as the Jews who settled in China), given the technologies of the time, disappeared as Jews. | | | The latter remains a factor in shaping the Jewish diaspora, certainly one that is high in the consciousness of Jews everywhere. |
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http://www.jcpa.org/dje/articles2/classicdias.htm
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| | JewishEncyclopedia.com - DIASPORA: |
| | But though a majority of the Jewish race—especially the wealthy families—were to be found in Babylonia, the existence it led there, under the successive rules of the Achæmenidæ, the Seleucids, the Parthians, and the Neo-Persians, or Sassanians, was obscure and devoid of political influence. | | | His successors were actuated by similar sentiments; and as soon as an organized Jewish state came into existence, its rulers, Hyrcan, the Herods, and the Agrippas—personal friends of the triumvirate and of the successive emperors—were enabled to intercede successfully on behalf of their persecuted coreligionists. | | | The contrary assertions of Jewish historians have to be received with extreme caution. |
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http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=329&letter=D
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| | Jew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is the traditional explanation to the Jewish diaspora, almost universally accepted by past and present rabbinical or Talmudical scholars, who believe that Jews are almost exclusively biological descendants of the Judean exiles, a belief backed up at least partially by DNA evidence. | | | In the Diaspora, in almost every country the Jewish population in general is either declining or steady, but Orthodox and Haredi Jewish communities, whose members often shun birth control for religious reasons, have experienced rapid population growth, with rates near 4% per year for Haredi Jews in Israel, and similar rates in other countries. | | | The advent of the Jewish Enlightenment (see Haskalah) of the 1700s and the subsequent emancipation of the Jewish populations of Europe and America in the 1800s, changed the situation, allowing Jews to increasingly participate in, and become part of, secular society. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew
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| | From the Jewish Diaspora |
| | In the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv of January 18, 1999, Uri Avnery decried the influence of Diaspora Jews on Israeli elections. | | | Intermarriage, the bane of organized Jewish life, is no stigma to millions of American Jews. | | | And Jewish organizations (many of whose members are aging or which in fact have no members at all) are also concerned with who wins the election even though very few dared to support publicly with rallies and ads the Rabin-Peres-Arafat peace process. |
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http://www.ariga.com/peacewatch/jdiaspora.htm
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| | The Jewish Diaspora in the Hellenistic Period |
| | The vast majority of the Jewish Diaspora under the Ptolemies was loyal to the monarchy, and attempted to participate in the society as much as Jewish law and traditions would permit (Collins, 151). | | | Yet the Jewish Diaspora of the Hellenistic period should not be confused with either the Babylonian or the later Roman Diasporas. | | | Some Jewish communities existed in other kingdoms and cities, such as the city of Antioch, in Syria under the Seleucids, and the Jews in Babylon who chose not to return from exile. |
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http://classes.maxwell.syr.edu/his301-001/jeishh_diaspora_in_greece.htm
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| | The Jewish Diaspora and Judeophobia |
| | Anti-Semitism has always been associated with the Jewish Diaspora; as long as Jews did not live outside the Land of Israel there was no hatred of Jews, except, of course, in the current Islam world where Judeophobia spilled over also to Jews who live in their homeland. | | | At the beginning Christianity was considered by the Rabbinical Jews as a Messianic Jewish sect. | | | The Babylonian diaspora was politically strong enough to revolt against Persian rule (359 BC), and was later affluent enough to provide substantial material support to the Hashmonean Kingdom of Judea. |
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http://www.buffalo-israel-link.org/joel9.htm
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| | Israel and the Diaspora from WUJS |
| | The Jewish Agency and Keren Hayesod should ideally be the natural allies of the government in this undertaking, since they are the fund-raising branches of the Israeli government in the Diaspora. | | | Diaspora Jews are well accustomed to responding to Israel’s calls for help: but it is time that some well-established plan, particularly in reference to the three afore-mentioned areas, replace these spontaneous requests. | | | Both the Jewish Agency and Keren Hayesod lack an anchor which would give them some idea of a cohesive policy on the part of the government; since there is no cohesive policy, they remain adrift. |
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http://www.wujs.org.il/activist/features/articles/relations.shtml
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| | from jesus to christ: a portrait of jesus' world: the jewish diaspora |
| | This is what we call the Diaspora, that is, the dispersion of Jewish population throughout the Empire, and we know that there are major Jewish communities in most of the large cities of the Empire, all the way from the Persian Gulf on the east to Spain on the west. | | | Nonetheless, despite the wide dispersion of Jewish population throughout the Roman Empire and in the east, Jews are bound together imaginatively and socially by the calendar. | | | Wherever you would have a Jewish community you would have a Jewish synagogue. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/portrait/diaspora.html
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| | Lahav and Arian: Jewish Diaspora |
| | In this case, the role of Israeli emigrants as a subset of a larger Jewish diaspora is rather problematic, since there seems to be little in common between the contemporary emigration of Israelis and the mass emigration of Jews to America at the turn of the century. | | | The ambivalent status of diaspora Israelis for Jews and Jewish organizations has evolved substantially since the formation of Israel fifty years ago, and needs to be interpreted as a function of the Israeli state. | | | Their assimilation into a wider Jewish diaspora remains limited, as is borne out and explained by significant attitudinal distances between the Israeli and American Jewish communities in general. |
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http://www2.hawaii.edu/~fredr/lahav.htm
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| | The Jewish diaspora: Rome |
| | The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus mentions a lawsuit in which 8,000 Jews from Rome sided with one of the parties (Jewish antiquities 2.80). | | | In principle, Javneh was also responsible for the Jews in the Diaspora, and sometimes teachers were sent abroad to educate the Jews in other parts of the Mediterranean world. | | | In his report, he gives an overview of the life of the Jews in Rome, mentioning that their position had been guaranteed by the emperor Augustus. |
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http://www.livius.org/di-dn/diaspora/rome.html
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| | The Destruction of the European Diaspora: the Holocaust Secondary: Konner, 268-317 Baskin, 243-264 Primary: Mendes-Flohr/Reinharz, 340-67, 636-699 13. | | | We shall discuss the medieval Jewish experience under both Christian and Islamic rule; the development of modern Jewish communities in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and the United States; the changing role of Jewish women; the rise of Zionism; and the Holocaust. | | | Introduction: The Jewish Diaspora and Its Roots in Late Antiquity Secondary: Judith Baskin, Jewish Women in Historical Perspective, 46-72 Melvin Konner, Unsettled, 1-81 (Recommended) Primary: Jacob R. Marcus, The Jew in the Medieval World, 3-7 2. |
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http://www.temple.edu/history/People/freidenreich/documents/THEJEWISHDIASPORA.doc
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| | Machers: Jewish: History - Jewish Biographies, Holocaust Study, History of Jews in Europe, Asia and America. |
| | Center for Jewish History Located in New York City, the Center serves as a central repository for the cultural and historical legacy of the Jewish people, and is the largest repository documenting the Jewish experience outside of Israel. | | | Machers: Jewish: History - Jewish Biographies, Holocaust Study, History of Jews in Europe, Asia and America. | | | The Shtetl Foundation The mission of the Shtetl Foundation is to document and celebrate the rich and vibrant Jewish History in Europe before its destruction during the Holocaust with the building of a full-size replica of a typical East-European Shtetl in Rishon Le-Zion, Israel. |
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http://www.machers.com/Default.aspx?tabid=42
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| | Judaic Studies |
| | Israel's Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora introduces exhibits on the life of Jews around the globe, with virtual exhibits on Judaism in Hungary, Romania and Arab lands. | | | Detailed guide to the history of the Jewish Diaspora with special focus on Judaism in Russia. | | | Extensive selection of important papers by the late pioneer of Jewish political thought features seminal works on the idea of covenant, biblical studies, Jewish community, Israel-Diaspora relations, and religion in Israeli society [posted by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs]. |
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http://virtualreligion.net/vri/judaic.html
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| | Museum Information |
| | Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, exists to convey the story of the Jewish people from the time of their expulsion from the Land of Israel 2,500 years ago to the present. | | | With the Assistance of the Jewish Agency for Israel | | | Our hope is that by sharing the unique story of Jewish endurance, new generations may find the key to their own. |
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http://www.bh.org.il/information/BethHatefutsoth.asp
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| | Cross Currents: The meaning of Zionism for the Diaspora |
| | The Jewish Socialist Bund and, for that matter, Simon Dubnov's dream of Jewish autonomy in multi-ethnic states, were creations of the Diaspora at the end of the nineteenth century, in the very years when political Zionism was created. | | | Even if the Jewish state now existed with a population of, let's say, four or five million, it would be dwarfed by the rest of the Jewish world. | | | The Zionists were, thus, the heirs of a century of Jewish response to the Emancipation when they imagined that the new Jewish culture in the home]and should be radically other than the culture of the ghetto. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2096/is_4_48/ai_54064298
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| | DNA and the Jewish Diaspora - Ambrosia Software, Inc. web board |
| | The finding suggested that Jewish men who founded the communities traced their lineage back to the ancestral Mideastern population of 4,000 years ago from which Arabs, Jews and other people are descended. | | | The DNA data suggest a particular version of Jewish history and origins that historians have not yet had time to appraise but that seem to be reconcilable in principle with the historical record, according to experts in Jewish studies. | | | Despite the definition of Jewishness as being born to a Jewish mother, and the likelihood of some continuity between ancient and modern populations, it has not until recently been clear that genetics had anything much to contribute to questions of Jewish identity. |
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http://www.ambrosiasw.com/webboard/Forum10/HTML/006107.html
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| | A Jewish Diaspora in the Orient |
| | Evidence found about the Jewish community of Kaifeng indicates that Chanukah was not celebrated, a sign that Jews came to China at an early period before the Hashmonean revolt. | | | The history of its minute Jewish Diaspora also draws much interest, perhaps due to the survival of a community in isolation from mainstream Jewish centers for about a millenium. | | | It contains the remnants of a Jewish community which flourished for nearly a thousand years, and continued to be identifiably Jewish until the 1840's. |
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http://www.wzo.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=1473&subject=50
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| | BBC News ISRAEL TODAY The Jewish Diaspora and Israel |
| | The Jewish diaspora has provided considerable financial help to the Jewish state and - especially in the case of the Jewish community in the United States - some powerful political muscle as well. | | | And Jews in the diaspora show increasing signs of a willingness to criticise Israel. | | | But this complex relationship between Israel and the Jewish diaspora is changing. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/events/israel_at_50/israel_today/80978.stm
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| | H-Net Review: Lisa Moses Leff on Diasporas and Exiles: Varieties of Jewish Identity |
| | Several contributors argue that Jewish identities and attitudes toward their dispersion were fundamentally influenced by the surrounding gentile culture, but only Sousloff actually pursues this line of research by exploring how cultural interactions were experienced and what they meant to Jews and their gentile neighbors. | | | Hellenistic Jews, he tells us, did not find diaspora problematic because in their world, diaspora was not abnormal. | | | In so doing, Sousloff sheds light not only on the Tietzes' "Jewishness," but more interestingly, on early twentieth-century Viennese portraiture as itself a kind of diasporic site in which what is "Jewish" and what is "not Jewish" cannot be understood in simple terms. |
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http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=159111057558942
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| | The Diaspora |
| | Thus, 597 is considered the beginning date of the Jewish Diaspora. | | | In desperation, the Jewish revolutionaries killed themselves rather than surrender to the Romans. | | | Romans begin to actively drive Jews from the home they had lived in for over a millennium. |
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Diaspora.html
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| | Where Are The Ten Lost Tribes Of Israel: www |
| | The Jewish Encyclopedia says Diaspora Jews may have invented this theory, hoping to avoid persecution as "Christ killers." These Jews claimed innocence, saying they never returned to the Holy Land after deportation to Assyrian captivity centuries before Christ (1901, Vol. | | | Also, we have much extrabiblical evidence of an ongoing Jewish presence in the region of Babylon. | | | Jews have always been recognizable as Jews and have never lost their Jewishness. |
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http://israelite.ca/TenTribesAttack_files/tentribesattack.htm
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| | Jewish Diaspora - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | Goim should not know the real reasons for persecution of Jews, Jewish pogroms. | | | For that purpose you should lure them into your groups, to create a firm Jewish ring around them, deprive them of contacts and acquaintances beyond the Jewish circle. | | | This way you will be helping our Jewish community. |
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http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=82719
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| | OML - Exodus and Exile: The Spaces of Diaspora |
| | These Biblical events have long been the subject of historical reconstructions by both Jewish and Christian scholars. | | | Although some Jews returned to rebuild the Temple, many remained in exile. | | | 1200 bce, establishing the pattern of return to a national homeland which is so central to Jewish culture and history [5]. |
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http://www.usm.maine.edu/maps/exhibit10/10-02.html
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| | DIASPORA: homelands in exile |
| | A 25-year exploration spanning more than 40 countries on five continents, DIASPORA shatters conventional ideas about Jews by celebrating in images and in words, the many expressions of Jews and Judaism. | | | groundbreaking photographic account of Jewish culture, community and identity represents the most extensive visual record of Jewish life ever created. |
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http://www.diasporathebook.com
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| | Harry Leichter's Jews of Asia |
| | Yes - Beijing does have a Jewish Community | | | Yes there is a Jewish Community in Shanghai China | | | The Jewish Company of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps |
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| | from jesus to christ: maps, archaeology and sources: the jewish diaspora |
| | By the end of the first century BCE, Rome had taken over the eastern Mediterranean and the Jewish population was spread through many cities of the east. | | | from jesus to christ: maps, archaeology and sources: the jewish diaspora | | | In the third and fourth centuries CE there were substantial Jewish settlements in most major eastern cities and many western provinces as well. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/maps/jewish.html
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