Word: diaspora
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Jewish domination in Palestine diminished after the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, and in the Diaspora most Jews were ultimately scattered. The Bible notes that Palestine had been promised to the "seed of Abraham." This properly applies to Arabs as well as Jews, since Abraham's first son, Ishmael, was born of the Egyptian concubine Hagar and is thus the father of the Arabs. Though Arabs did not conquer Palestine until A.D. 634, they have remained ever since, first as rulers and later as the subjects of an Ottoman hegemony that ended after...
...Timothy Leary seems to be turning into a one-man Diaspora. Since he escaped from a minimum-security prison in California, where he was serving a one-to-ten-year sentence on a pot rap, the former Harvard psychologist and LSDemon has been hustled in and out of Arab airports by unsympathetic authorities. In Algiers they canceled his announced press conference with Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver. Leary and three traveling companions next surfaced in Beirut. They were supposed to "study the methods of the Palestinian revolutionaries," but neither Jordan nor Syria would have them. Cairo let them stay overnight...
...time they near their goal-Gabriola, an island on Canada's West Coast -they have been transformed into a pair of unearthly representatives of a pagan diaspora. And not too subtly. The fire and water that drove them from their previous homes are invested with stage magic. Old men mutter about the qualities of wood as if spirits lived in the grain. Llewelyn feels foreshadowings in everything from snatches of movie dialogue to highway billboards. Symbols wash up out of the sea and appear...
...United Nations Day. Leland Moss' Estragon seems to have been imported from a Catskills road company of Fiddler on the Roof. His gestures might have been modelled on Menasha Skulnik's, his lines threaten to slip into Yiddish, and the "nu's" and the "oy's" and the Diaspora world-weariness almost crown Beckett the prince of pushcart playwrights...
...book is a complex interlacing of myth and mystery, parable and paradox, and straight description of an unusual war. At its center is a brief sketch of a now completed circle of Jewish history -from the Roman razing of the great Temple in Jerusalem and the diaspora, through the aftermath of Christ's crucifixion and Hitler's Final Solution, to the recapture of the Wailing Wall on the Temple grounds by Israeli soldiers in 1967. Outwardly, it is a cycle from defeat to victory. Inwardly, it represents the record of a profound moral dilemma. For the ancient Temple...