Word: diasporas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jewish Diaspora will have been the pioneer and pilot community of the new kind. That is a glorious role . . . Let it take heart, and seize its destiny with both hands, now that its long travail is at last on the verge of bearing fruit...
...outside Israel will continue to be concerned for the welfare of their fellow Jews there, as they will be for Jews all over the world. But politically, argues I Toynbee, they will be Americans, Frenchmen, Englishmen, etc., even more firmly than they were before. Does this mean that the Diaspora-the dispersed group I of Jewish communities outside Israel-is ! doomed to extinction? On the contrary, I says Toynbee. "It has a magnificent future on a religious basis if it bases itself on religion alone...
...other Jews, are convinced that the wave of the future for Judaism lies in the state of Israel rather than the Jews outside it. But, says Toynbee, "as an historian, peering into the future in the light of the past, [ spy the wave of the future in the Jewish Diaspora...
...entering, the standard type of community, in my expectation, is going to be not the territorial national state, but the world-encompassing religious community. It is, in fact, going to be the type of community that has been represented already, for some 2,400 years past,*by the Jewish Diaspora...