Word: diaspora
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...benefit is that Israel will then make its capital Tel Aviv, an action that will emphasize the nation's progressive modern attitudes rather than the illiberal theocratic forces which, in my mind, have had an extremely damaging effect on the nation--both in its relation with Arabs and with diaspora Jews...
Though tempted, Johnson is not completely seduced by the attractions of mystical determinism, the idea that Jewish experience from the Covenant through the Diaspora, the Holocaust and the Return is the expression of providential design. "We are," he writes, "credulous creatures, born to believe, and equipped with powerful imaginations which readily produce and rearrange data to suit any transcendental scheme." Abundant evidence is proffered, from Jewish false messiahs to Aryan delusions of racial supremacy...
Roth is alienated both from the old country of Eastern Europe that spawned his immigrant parents and from the pleasant diaspora, non-tenemant nest that American Jews have created for themselves. The novel's homebase is this world. Nathan lives in New York City and his brother in South Orange, a suburb of Newark, where the two brothers grew up. Roth has written about these places before. His first great novel, Goodbye, Columbus, takes place in Irvington, New Jersey, a city that borders on Newark. Roth himself grew up in Newark and Irvington...
Roth sums up the struggles he has had being a writer with a decidedly ethnic identity and a comfortable, college-educated American Jew in the age of Israel and the diaspora. It wasn't supposed to happen this way, all Jews were supposed to want to return to Israel. But even if the story he tells leaves us baffled in the end, at least he provides an answer to his dilemma...
...magazine has already received about 15 submissions and a $100 grant from the Harvard Foundation. The publishers plans to publish one issue this year and hope to get it out by February, which is Black History month. Two thousand free copies of Diaspora will be distributed at the Freshman Union and through...