#336 Diaspora

Diaspora- the dispersion of the Jews after the Babylonian and Roman conquests of Palestine; the Jewish communities outside Israel; often not capitalized diaspora a dispersion or spreading, as of people originally belonging to one nation or having a common culture

C19 from Greek: a scattering, from diaspeirein to disperse

The safey of the Jew in diaspora has varied from place to place at any given time, and from time to time within any given place.

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