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[ . . . ] [A]n attempt will be made to present the history of the Jews of the African Maghreb, a large, well-defined diaspora which in some respects is different from other Jewish groups generally and…
It happened in the days of Ahasuerus—that Ahasuerus who reigned over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia. In those days, when King Ahasuerus occupied the royal…
But what about the future? Does the American-Jewish community possess those traits and characteristics which, as we know from the experience of a dozen Diaspora communities over two thousand years…
[ . . . V]iewed from the broad historic perspective, it is not at all surprising that American Jewry has not yet produced those great cultural achievements for which we are all…
Wolin spent six years photographing a hundred Jewish residents of Wyoming, eventually publishing the photographs in a 2000 book, The Jews of Wyoming: Fringe of the Diaspora. Her black-and-white…
Things have changed since we last met. Some of your friends have already reached their homeland; others are soon to follow. Once opened, the gates will not shut again. Nothing will ever be the same as…
The attempt I have made to realign these concepts does not, of course, do away with the conflicts, tensions, cultural struggles, and constant inputs and reequilibrations of problems of identity. All…
To be in exile, with a religious or historical sense that one is exiled, is to have already a mission and purpose in life. One’s clear project then is to end the exile and to return to…
We propose Diaspora as a theoretical and historical model to replace national self-determination. To be sure, this would be an idealized Diaspora generalized from those situations in Jewish history…
Taking a leaf from the role of learning amongst many Modern/Centrist Zionist Orthodox Jews, adult Jewish study should become a permanent feature of the Jewish home everywhere, whereby adults are…