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The Jewish diaspora (Hebrew: תְּפוּצָה, romanized: təfūṣā) or exile (Hebrew: גָּלוּת gālūṯ; Yiddish: golus) [a] is the dispersion of Israelites or Jews out of their ancient ancestral homeland (the Land of Israel) and their subsequent settlement in other parts of the globe. [3] [4]
The Jewish state comes to an end in 70 AD, when the Romans begin to actively drive Jews from the home they had lived in for over a millennium. But the Jewish Diaspora ("diaspora" ="dispersion, scattering") had begun long before the Romans had even dreamed of Judaea.
Jul 20, 1998 · Diaspora, the dispersion of Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian Exile or the aggregate of Jewish communities scattered ‘in exile’ outside Palestine or present-day Israel. The term carries religious, philosophical, political, and eschatological connotations.
During the Hellenistic and Roman periods, Jews established communities in new regions, from Antioch to Alexandria. The first permanent Jewish diaspora was the settlement in Babylon created by Nebuchadnezzar’s deportations from Judah in the 590s-580s [BCE].
May 18, 2018 · The Jewish diaspora is said by classical scholars to have begun during the First Temple period, with the establishment of a community of Jewish mercenaries within the military outpost of Elephantine (Southern Egypt) and with the removal of Jewish captives from the conquered Hebrew kingdom of Israel by the Assyrians in 722 B.C.E.
Jul 31, 2024 · Judaism - Babylonian Exile, Diaspora, Torah: The survival of the religious community of exiles in Babylonia demonstrates how rooted and widespread the religion of YHWH was. Abandonment of the national religion as an outcome of the disaster is recorded of only a minority.
Visual Timeline. Page through 3000 years of Jewish history, culture and experience featured in The Story of the Jews with Simon Schama.
