Word: diasporas
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...hangings in Baghdad were a bitter dramatization of the plight of the many thousand Jews who still live in the Arab world, and Israel opened a determined publicity and diplomatic campaign designed to protect them. They are among the remnants of the great Diaspora-the dispersal of the Jews from Jerusalem after the conquest of their capital by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C. Down through the centuries, Jews and Arabs got along with one another reasonably well; though Jews generally were treated as second-class citizens, they were respected as "people of the Book." They prospered as traders...
...notes of various vertical distances above and below a reference line. The work, described as "savage" in the program notes but bordering on melodrama, describes Schoenberg's raging desperateness as the Jews flee Nazist Warsaw, and his resumption of the Jewish faith in the face of this tragic modern Diaspora. This profound personal utterance seems to suffer from the same type of self-consciously tortured text which reduced Bernstein's Kaddish symphony to almost complete rhetorical vacuousness. The performance was frenetic rather than impassioned, especially in the closing Hebrew prayer Sh'ma Yisroel, but since the work is one organized...
...Palestinian Diaspora...
That ancient exile the Wandering Jew has never been harder to track. He may travel less from country to country; but, hung up in a no man's land between a fixed Talmudic past and a restless, skeptical present, he suffers from a different kind of Diaspora...
Despite the visible health and prosperity of existing denominations, there is a considerable number of future-oriented theologians who feel that the church, in large parts of the world, is entering a stage of Diaspora-when, like Judaism, it will survive in the form of a scattered few, the hidden remnant. Strangely enough, there are any number of Christians who rejoice at this prospect rather than fear it. This is not because they want to see the fainthearted and the half convinced drift away into unbelief. Rather, they prefer that the choice of being Christian once again become openly...