Word: diaspora
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christian group which devotes its energies to community service and downplays the significance of minority involvement on campus. And keeping pace with both of those developments has been the success of cultural groups--the Black C.A.S.T. Drama group; the Kuumba Singers; Expressions, a dance group; and the literary magazine Diaspora--which have begun to assert themselves as independent organizations after initially being under the auspices of BSA through its sister organization, the Afro-American Cultural Center...
Like a jet-age symbol of the Palestinian diaspora, Yasser Arafat seemed to be at home only inside the fuselage of an airplane last week. As diplomats on several continents tried in vain to understand the latest political maneuvers in the Middle East, the shrewd survivor who runs the Palestine Liberation Organization jetted from South Yemen to North Yemen to Sweden and then to Tunisia, supposedly to attend a high-level P.L.O. policy meeting. But soon after arriving in Tunis, he left for a quick trip to Bulgaria, finally returning to Tunisia. Amid all this frenetic travel, whose purpose only...
...Palestine National Council, the organization's de facto parliament. Headed by Arafat, Fatah enjoys the support of middle-class moderates and has few ideological goals other than the liberation of Palestine. Though Fatah receives most of its funds from the gulf states, primarily Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian diaspora, it is the only group without binding ties to an Arab government. That independence, along with the fact that about 80% of the P.L.O.'s fighters are under its command, has made Fatah a formidable power base for Arafat...
...defilement of the language of Scripture. Some fanatics who heard young Ben-Zion talking to his dog in Hebrew seized the dog and killed it. There were other kinds of opposition as well. Immigrants who had been nurtured in Yiddish clung emotionally to the language of the Diaspora. Even Zionist Leader Theodor Herzl rejected Ben-Yehuda's campaign as impractical...
...memoirs, Menachem Begin wrote fiercely of the emergence of "the Fighting Jew." For much of Jewish history, through the long centuries of the Diaspora, that phrase was an oxymoron, a kind of contradiction in terms. Israel was the creation of fighting Jews, of course, but at least until the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel was the heroic and democratic underdog struggling for its very existence in the vast and hostile Arab wilderness. For a couple of thousand years, Jewish morality presupposed a kind of victim's righteousness, the special blamelessness of those without great collective power. Now Israel...