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After spending a year in London doing fieldwork for his dissertation on the Iraqi diaspora in Britain, he moved to Montreal to finish writing it and became a permanent resident of Canada in June 2005. According to Dewachi, Canada recognizes his “N” series passport...
...peace and its dream. For 2,000 years the thought of Zion warmed the minds of the world's scattered Jews. ''Next year in Jerusalem'' -- the prayer ended in an ardent sigh. The trajectory of that yearning was launched endlessly from shtetl and ghetto in the wilderness of the Diaspora. At last, 40 years ago the arc of the desire was completed, the dream implanted in history. Israel, thought David Ben-Gurion, would be a ''light unto the nations.'' In his memoirs in 1949, the first Israeli President, Chaim Weizmann, wrote about the Zionist ambition to build a ''high civilization...
...face grows radiant. ''We live in biblical times,'' says Wiesel. ''Think of all that has been accomplished in 40 years.'' A national home for every Jew in the world, an ingathering from more than 100 countries -- although, of course, 9.3 million of the world's Jews remain in the Diaspora. The resurrection of a dormant language, Hebrew, for everyday use, a constantly renewed and invented tongue that has helped compose a functioning society, and democracy, out of the disparate characters and cultures that have come to the Promised Land from Poland, Morocco, Ethiopia, Mexico, everywhere. The earlier Zionist settlers...
...involved. Arthur Hertzberg, a vice president of the World Jewish Congress, believes something began to go wrong for Israel at the moment of its greatest triumph, the Six-Day War. He argues that while the 1967 victory was splendid for the Jewish ego, in Israel and in the Diaspora, the demonstration of such brilliant power, whatever advantages it brought, eventually led down a path of aggressiveness and grandiosity. After the Six-Day War, Ben-Gurion, then in retirement, warned Israel that it should give back all the captured territories very quickly, ''for holding on to them would distort, and might...
...said. "I can travel now!" And so you did, commuting between America , Europe , Turkey and Armenia , bridging gaps that people on all sides took for granted. Always a maverick, you never just gave your audience what they wanted to hear. The myriad prejudices and generalizations in the Armenian diaspora about Turkey and the Turks frustrated you. "Yes, there are bigoted Turks," you would say, "but there also countless progressive, open-minded ones, and they are my friends, brothers and sisters...