Identity of the diaspora

"Living in the diaspora is deeply rooted within the Jewish identity: dispersion of their own people and desire to return to the land of the ancestors both formed the identity of those Jews who lived away from Palestine as well as of those who dwelled in Palestine and in the later Israel. The Jews must have dealt with a predominantly negative image of the diaspora, shelilat ha-galut, from the earliest of times, but it eventually happened to be an important formative factor of their nationality. Although the idea of being ‘the People of the Book’, who could only nd [?] home in the sacred text and not in some particular land, 1 [it] might seem attractive at [fi]rst, the diaspora has nonetheless been seen as a form of exile and a complete loss of homeland. Such loss, quite understandably, gave birth to hope for return which culminated in the Zionist movement of the 20th century."--

Year

2015

Language

English

Series

The journal of juristic papyrology. Supplements -- volume XXVI

Publisher

University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law and Administration, Chair of Roman Law and the Law of Antiquity

Editions

1

Pages

363

ISBN

9788393842568

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