Word: diaspora
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...will that Rome, the mightier culture, should prevail. In their bullheadedness, the Jews ignored the classic portents of disaster: chariots darting through the clouds, a cow giving birth to a lamb in the Temple of Herod. When Palestine was finally crushed, its people scattered in the Diaspora that was to be their fate for nearly 19 centuries, Josephus, the survivor, coolly observed: "Such were the agonies to which the Jews condemned themselves...
...profane, attempting to build the Kingdom of God by transforming the organisms of the secular city. In sum, the new church will be a return to the Biblical notion of the "salt of the earth." Germany's great Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner argues that Christianity is already "in diaspora," as the triumphal mass church of Christendom's past evolves into...
...both sides, Indian and Pakistani exiles are pawns in a vast, vengeful diaspora unequaled since the migrations that followed the 1947 partitioning of the subcontinent between Hindu India and Moslem Pakistan. The two-way exodus was restarted this year by a savage, three-month wave of Hindu-Moslem rioting, mostly in eastern India and East Pakistan; the conflict has already taken untold hundreds of lives in two countries. India claims that some 200,000 Hindus have been forced to flee Pakistan. Pakistan claims that some 200,000 Moslems have been forced to flee India. For all their indignation, neither side...
Prepared for just such an opening, the Rothschilds had created a communications system of fast coaches and a Yiddish-German cipher to link the family diaspora. Meyer sent Prince William's Hessian thalers to London, where Son Nathan's speculations multiplied them and won the family a small fortune and big reputation. When the British asked Nathan to smuggle gold to Wellington's troops trapped in Portugal during the Napoleonic wars, he shipped the gold straight to France, where Brother Jakob slipped it through the Pyrenees. Nathan found out about Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo before...
...remote little island in the Atlantic has cast its shadow across the civilized world since the Dark Ages, when Irish priests and scholars roamed Europe expounding new (and mostly heretical) theologies. In a diaspora even greater than the expulsion of the Jews, more than 3,000,000 Irishmen in the past 100 years have scattered across the world, forming what an Irish writer calls "one of the world's great secret societies, with branches everywhere"-though the society was never very secret. Everyone has his own list of great Irishmen, but there is no denying that the gifts...