Word: diaspora
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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...
Norris H. Chase '90 decided during Freshman Week to revive Diaspora Magazine, a Black literary journal which ceased publishing four years ago. The result will be a new 50-page publication, replete with essays, poetry, short stories and commentary...
...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...
According to Lichtman, the tragedy of the Palestinians is the result of their "betrayal" by the Arab states and the "violent path" of Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasir Arafat. He ignores the fact that there would be no Palestinian diaspora without the actions taken by the various Jewish underground forces in Palestine to frighten, intimidate and physically force the Palestinians to leave. Nor would 25,000 Palestinians and Lebanese, along with more than 500 Israeli soldiers, have been killed in 1982 if Israel had not decided to break the American-arranged truce and invade Lebanon. In addition, Yasir Arafat...