Jewish diaspora
Exiled population worldwide
The Jewish diaspora refers to the dispersion of Jewish people outside their ancestral homeland of Israel, and to the communities they formed worldwide.
Beginning with the Babylonian exile in the 6th century BCE and accelerating after Roman conquest, Jews settled across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and eventually the Americas.
The Jewish diaspora maintained cultural and religious identity across centuries of displacement.
Forced permanent removal
- dispersionScattering across space
- scatteringDistribution in many directions
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- Babylonian exileJudean deportation to Mesopotamia
exodus · banishment · flight · refugee · emigration · pogrom · persecution · Holocaust
Jewish house of worship
- TorahJudaism's core scripture
- ShabbatJewish day of rest
- PassoverFestival of liberation
- Rosh HashanahJewish calendar's start
Yom Kippur · Hanukkah · Seder · Talmud · kosher · rabbi · cantor · Haggadah
Ashkenazi Jewish language
- LadinoSephardic heritage language
- HebrewSemitic language of Israel
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
- revivalReturn after decline
Torah reading summons
- homelandOne's native land
- IsraelMiddle Eastern nation
- statehoodCondition of being sovereign
- ingatheringAct of assembling together
Balfour Declaration · kibbutz · Ben-Gurion · pioneers · return · right of return
Absorbing into a whole
- acculturationAdopting another group's customs
- integrationCombining into a whole
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
- resilienceCapacity to recover quickly
syncretism · coexistence · cultural fusion · accommodation · reinvention · adjustment · transformation · naturalization
expulsion
Forced permanent removal
- dispersionScattering across space
- scatteringDistribution in many directions
- displacementRemoval from usual location
Babylonian exile · exodus · banishment · flight · refugee · emigration · pogrom · persecution · Holocaust · Shoah
Ashkenazi
Jews of European descent
- SephardiJew of Iberian descent
synagogue
Jewish house of worship
Rosh Hashanah · Yom Kippur · Hanukkah · Seder · Talmud · kosher · rabbi · cantor · Haggadah · menorah
Yiddish
Ashkenazi Jewish language
- LadinoSephardic heritage language
- HebrewSemitic language of Israel
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
aliyah
Torah reading summons
ingathering · Balfour Declaration · kibbutz · Ben-Gurion · pioneers · return · right of return
assimilation
Absorbing into a whole
- acculturationAdopting another group's customs
- integrationCombining into a whole
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
resilience · syncretism · coexistence · cultural fusion · accommodation · reinvention · adjustment · transformation · naturalization · reinterpretation
- JudaismShabbat, kosher, Passover, Torah, Hanukkah
- IsraelIsrael, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Hebrew
- Jewish HistoryHolocaust, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon
- religious historyChristian history, early Christianity, early church, church councils, Protestant Reformation
- diasporaexiles, emigrants, Vietnamese Americans, emigres, emigration
- early churchapostles, early church, Church Fathers, apostolic fathers, Acts of the Apostles
Jewish diasporaLand of Israel
Biblical promised homeland
Israel · Jewish homeland · Zion · Palestine · Promised Land
Jewish, diaspora, Jews, Israelites, diasporic, diasporas, Israelite