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diasporaDispersal of the Jews, initially from Israel and Judah 586-538 BC after the Babylonian conquest (the Babylonian Captivity, or exile); and then the major diaspora following the Roman sacking of Jerusalem in AD 70 and their crushing of the Jewish revolt of 135. The term has come to refer to all the Jews living outside Israel. ‘Diaspora’ is sometimes applied to the enforced dispersal of other peoples; for example, that of the Armenians by the Turks between 1909 and 1915 and of black Africans as a result of the slave trade. |
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| Museum of the African Diaspora's Diaspora Carnaval: Celebrating Across Cultures I will then turn to an examination of how Boyarin's work not only helps to nuance Yoder's work on the question of difference, but also helps us to see that a diaspora politics is not about a flight from the land but instead offers a concrete way of living faithfully in the land. From the beginning of the conference and throughout "Africa 05," the topic of African artists living and working in diaspora was consistently revisited. |
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