Word: diaspora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Year after year, for 1,880 years, wherever their wanderings took them, the Jews of the Diaspora have prayed at Passover time: "Next year-in Jerusalem." This year, they were emphatically in Jerusalem. In the ancient city the Israelis celebrated a triumphant Passover...
...most Jews in Palestine, and beyond in the vast Diaspora, last week looked like the eve of Armageddon, the decisive battle for national life...
...first drove them into exile, Jews, wherever they were, dreamed wistfully of a return to Palestine, waited for the Messiah who was to lead them back. But by one of history's ironies it was not the religious fervor of Judaism that finally brought them back from the Diaspora. It was a new feeling of nationhood among a people united partly by religion (though among them were atheists), partly by race (though many bore no blood relation to the biblical tribesmen who were their "ancestors"), partly by tradition (though they included extreme political and social experimenters), but chiefly...
...take a step back to view himself as critic. "The tendency toward selfcriticism, often to the point of self-disgust and self-execration, is thoroughly German. . . ." As an example of German selfcriticism, Mann recalls: "In conversation, at least, Goethe went so far as to wish for a German Diaspora. 'Like the Jews,' he said, 'the Germans must be transplanted and scattered over the world. ... In order to develop the good that lies in them...
Logan Pearsall Smith is a New Jersey-born expatriate of the first diaspora (circa 1880). Smith does not like expatriates of the second dispersion. Least of all does he like their chief anti-Miltonians, Expatriates Ezra Pound and Thomas Stearns Eliot. They, he charges, are Delilahs in a cunning campaign to shear the literary locks of the Puritan poetic Samson. Once more Smith raises the now famous question: Why does Ezra Pound...