Word: diaspora
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...their material achievement in the U.S., for all the concern of tradition-minded elders about excessive assimilation and loss of identity, most American Jews have a fierce emotional attachment to Israel. The reasons are not difficult to find. Two thousand years of Diaspora and persecution have left a legacy of interdependence. The deaths of 6,000,000 during World War II, followed soon after by the rebirth of a Jewish state, added first unspeakable sorrow and then boundless pride to their outlook...
...date, however, no plans for reconstruction have been approved, and students are working in temporary quarters scattered throughout New Haven. Some of them enjoy the diaspora. Says one: "There's something romantic about setting up a studio in an abandoned store front-at least at first." But teachers and students alike miss the central meeting place and facilities that only a functioning school building can provide -and Rudolph's much-lauded building continues to baffle its users...
...missionary district to the first hierarchy that establishes itself in a new area-and the Russians have had a diocese in North America since 1840. The Greeks, who did not establish their American archdiocese until 1921, insist that other Orthodox canons give jurisdiction over all believers in the "diaspora churches" to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Athenagoras I, first among equals of the world's Orthodox bishops...
...called Jewish. But in all that time, he argues, "Palestine never became a national home for any other people, has never been regarded as a geopolitical entity, has never been an independent state. It was conquered and reconquered no less than 14 times." Throughout the centuries of the Diaspora, the Jews never abandoned hope of regaining their ancient land. At every Passover Seder, each Jewish family would ritually promise itself: "Next year, in Jerusalem...
...brooding and melancholic that seems so irrepressible in much of Bellow and Malamud, Roth's treatment of the American Jew has always been relentlessly comic--even if sometimes bitterly so. Bellow's Jews--optimistic characters like Augie March included--seem to have been wandering ever since the Diaspora began. Meanwhile, Malamud has drifted back into Czarist Russia to find realities analogous to present predicaments. Nothing but consciousness, so much consciousness that the Jew has been through it all so many times before. Bellow and Malamud cultivate stoicism, where their readers--incensed by the darkness of their work--look for outrage...