Word: diasporas
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Today most Mafia wives are native Americans, but their marriages reflect the old-country values of silence and obedience. Family bonds have weakened, but neither the generation gap nor the suburban Diaspora has dissolved them. Fathers may bankroll their sons in a legitimate business or pay their way through medical school. "But if the sons don't have the brains," says an investigator, "they are given work in the Mob. The sons don't become plumbers or factory workers. That wouldn't look right." Many of the daughters go to college, but only a few seek careers...
...paunch may protrude a bit farther stage front, but otherwise Tevye the milkman hasn't changed much since Zero Mostel created the role in 1964. Fiddler on the Roof, the longest-running show on Broadway (nearly eight years), is back from its Diaspora, and Mostel, 61, is again playing the part like a hyperthyroid zeppelin. Why did Mostel return to Anatevka? "Greed!" he bellowed at an opening-night party last week at Manhattan's Tavern on the Green, where he Zeroed in on friends and tugged at a lady's bouffant wig. Wife Kate finally...
...Palestinians means not the West Bank but towns within Israel that they might expect to visit some day but certainly not to liberate. Actually, what the Palestinians want most of all is the sense of national identity that would arise from statehood. Just as many Jews in the Diaspora were given a new sense of pride and hope by the creation of Israel; so also would the Palestinian refugees escape from the tarnish of being second-class citizens of nowhere if a state of their own were founded...
...September 19, a joint letter demanding full minority recognition for Asian Americans was sent to Dean Epps from the Coalition of Asian Americans, La Organization, the Task Force on Affirmative Action, H R Raza, the Association of Black Radcliffe Women, the Black Students Science Organization, Diaspora and the Kuumba Singers. Dean Epps has yet to respond. On October 15, the Coalition of Asian Americans presented their demands to Dean Epps. Again, Dean Epps failed to respond. The letter sent on October 28 by Josephine Lok and Bet Har Wong, the women excluded from the Minority Banquet, has not been answered...
...Persecuted Jews from Byzantium are believed to have flocked to Khazaria, where they intermarried with their Caucasian coreligionists. When Genghis Khan's Mongols swept westward in the 13th century, Khazaria's Jews fled to Eastern and Central Europe. These fugitives, Koestler suggests, were part of a second Diaspora that became the Ashkenazim, or European Jews of Russia and Poland. True Semitic Jews, he says, are descendants of the Sephardim, that small group whose exile wanderings can be traced from the ancient Middle East through North Africa, Spain and Portugal...