Word: diaspora
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...close to the folk stream of East European Jewish life as blintzes and borsch. In countless stories (The Old Country, Adventures of Mattel) he humorously chronicled the bittersweet life of the late 19th-century eastern ghettos-pious, self-contained, but poised on the brink of a new Diaspora to Western Europe and America. Born Solomon Rabinowitz, and raised in the little village of Voronko, Russia, the hero of The Great Fair is a "pretty boy with fat red cheeks," who can convulse his playmates by mimicking the rabbi's manner of taking snuff, or bring a glint of pride...
...Diaspora is refreshing after nothing. There is a point here, a trace of something that does not stink, a sort of negative odor that puts it above Spades." There are people who love a country, and they find it stricken, and there is a girl whose love is wider than a country. It is good that the authoress loves the country of which she writes, but there is a vapid, too-plaintive air that distracts the sympathy of the reader. "If you were born in Israel, you were a sabra, tough and tan on the outside, sweating...
...orthodoxy of the ghetto did not have to cope with the maintenance of a modern state, and the religious laws that nourished and protected the Judaism of the Diaspora can be an embarrassment once Zion has been attained. Yet the rabbinate, while recognizing that such basic services as electricity, water, telephone and telegraph must be maintained seven days a week, cannot bring itself to give the necessary dispensation to Orthodox Jews. Said one of them last week: "Jews are permitted to work on the Sabbath if the security of the nation is threatened, or to save human life...
...young people make it clear that the law-bound Judaism of the Diaspora is not what they are looking for. Said one of them last week: "In the teachings of the Bible there are principles of ethics and morals on which can be constructed a way of life more satisfying than the rabbis' interpretations with which our grandparents had to be content." Added another: "Every nation needs its traditions, but we modern Israelis can't accept the traditionalism of the Torah-soaked ghettos...
...Orthodox Jews of the Diaspora have often hired non-Jews (goyim) to perform household tasks that are forbidden on the Sabbath (shabbos...