Word: diaspora
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...Israel. Four thousand years of Jewish history had passed since, in the words of Genesis, the Lord God told Abraham: "Go forth from your country . . . to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation." After centuries of wandering in the Diaspora, the people of the Covenant had returned to their Promised Land. No longer did the Passover toast, "Next Year in Jerusalem," represent an impossible messianic dream. It was reality...
...teacher, Castaneda asserts, was born in 1891, and suffered in the diaspora of the Yaquis all over Mexico from the 1890s until the 1910 revolution His parents were murdered by soldiers He became a nomad. This helps explain why the elements of Don Juan s sorcery are a combination of shamanistic beliefs from several cultures. Some of them are not at all "representative of the Yaquis. Many Indian tribes, such as the Huichols, use peyote ntually, both north and south of the border ?some in a syncretic blend of Christianity and shamanism. But the Yaquis are not peyote users...
Vienna is also the way station on a reverse emigration, a considerably smaller and less-heralded diaspora of the disenchanted. Currently, 96 Soviet Jews for whom Israel did not live up to its promise are waiting there. They want to go back to the U.S.S.R., but have been told to wait for official approval of their re-entry visas. Some have been waiting in Vienna for 18 months; the most recent arrivals have been there for five. They huddle in a miserable tenement in Vienna's Malzgasse and grow increasingly desperate. Says Rachel Ostrovskaya, a dressmaker from Odessa...
...Jewish American fiction writer has had to contend with two Diasporas. First, there was the historical dispersion of his ancestors and heritage: immigrants eagerly filling in the blanks of America, often leaving their sons and daughters confused about where they came from and who they were. This, in fact, became the principal subject of Jewish American writing. The second Diaspora affected the subject itself. Even by the mid-1960s, fiction about Jews had spread pretty thin...
Most Communist nations in Eastern Europe treat their former citizens who have emigrated to the West like lost souls at best and traitors at worst. A notable exception is Poland. The 19-month-old regime of Edward Gierek has actively encouraged friendly ties between "Polonia," as the Polish Diaspora is known, and the Polish People's Republic. That campaign is being intensified this summer as Poland faces a special tourist boom: emigres and their descendants returning to the old country as visitors...