Word: diasporas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...plays Mama Hirsch, a Westchester matron of the affluent diaspora displaced from The Bronx. Mama Hirsch is not content to throw her weight around; she shot-puts her entire family. Her daughter (Jill Kraft) lands on a psychoanalyst's couch: Should she marry a button-down stuffed shirt or donate free love to a beardless beatnik? Mama's husband (Howard Da Silva) lands on a putting green, a golf widower torn between selling his house and business and retiring to Florida, or buying out his rival and increasing his headaches. Informed that she is too meddlesomely possessive, Mama...
Miraculous Rabbis. The people of New Square are Hasidim, adherents of a Jewish mystical movement that sprang from the ghettos of eastern Europe in the 18th century in reaction against the rigid intellectual austerity of Diaspora Judaism. The Hasidim were orthodox in observing the law, but their special emphasis was on love and joy and they gathered around holy men, or zaddikim, whom they believed to have miraculous powers...
...Toynbee harks back to the first Diaspora in 586 B.C., when Emperor Nebuchadnezzar wiped out the Kingdom of Judah and initiated the spiritually fruitful period of the "Babylonian Captivity...