The Greek and Jewish diasporas are the most significant of Western civilization. Homelands and Diasporas is the first book to explore the similarities and differences between these two experiences. In the process it sheds fascinating light on their fundamental importance for both Greek and Jewish societies. The authors examine Greek and Jewish diasporas throughout history, from classical and Biblical times to the present, and all over the world--in Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, Russia, the Near and Middle East, Spain and the US. They analyze the very nature of diaspora, examining both the Greek concept of noble expansion and the Jewish idea of enforced exile, and analyze community structures as well as social and religious networks, combining scriptural analysis with cultural and political history. Diaspora is a difficult and emotive concept but Homelands and Diasporas offers a balanced and perceptive guide to the connected histories of these two peoples away from their homelands.
Author(s): Minna Rozen
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 352
Contents......Page 8
List of Contributors......Page 12
Remarks on the Method of Transliteration......Page 18
Acknowledgements......Page 20
Preface......Page 22
Introduction: People of the Book, People of the Sea: Mirror Images of the Soul - Minna Rozen......Page 36
Part I: The Genesis of Diasporas
......Page 84
1. Exile - The Biblical Perspectives - Bustenay Oded......Page 86
2. Between Greek Colony and Mother-City: Some Reflections - Panagiotis N. Doukellis......Page 94
Part II: Pre-Modern Diaspora: Patterns of Behaviour......Page 108
1. The Jewish Politeuma in Alexandria: A Pattern of Jewish Communal Life in the Greco-Roman Diaspora - Aryeh Kasher......Page 110
2. Collective Expatriations of Greeks in the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries - Anastassia Papadia-Lala......Page 128
A. The Greek Diaspora: Practical Solutions......Page 136
1. Reconstituting Community: Cultural Differentiation and Identity Politics in Christian Orthodox Communities during the Late Ottoman Era - Haris Exertzoglou......Page 138
2. The 'Old' Diaspora, the 'New' Diaspora in the Eighteenth Century through Nineteenth Century Vienna - Vasiliki Seirinidou......Page 156
3. Greek Diaspora in Southern Russia in the Eighteenth through Nineteenth Centuries - Vassilis Kardasis......Page 162
4. Central and Peripheral Communities in the Greek Diaspora: Interlocal and Local Economic, Political, and Cultural Networks in the Eighteenth Centuries - Olga Katsiardi-Hering......Page 170
B. The Jewish Diaspora: Spiritual Solutions......Page 182
5. A Land Adored Yet Feared: The Land of Israel in Jewish Tradition - Aviezer Ravitzky......Page 184
6. Spain, Greece or Jerusalem? The Yearning for the Motherland in the Poetry of Greek Jews......Page 212
Part IV: The Modern World and its Demise......Page 226
1. Breaks and Continuities in German-Jewish Identity - Yfaat Weiss......Page 228
2. The Metamorphosis of Pre-Dubnovian Autonomism into Diaspora Jewish Nationalism - Marcos Silber......Page 236
3. Does Money Talk? The Struggle Between American Zionists and the Yishuv in the Early 1940s - Zohar Segev......Page 258
4. Greek Orthodox Church Networks in the Near East and the Emergence of Arab Nationalism (1899 - 1947) - Sotirios Roussos......Page 280
5. Center and Diaspora in hte Struggle for Human Rights: The State of Israel and the Jewish 'Desaparecidos' in Argentina during the Military Regime (1976-1983) - Efraim Zadoff......Page 294
6. Jewish Diaspora and the Privatization of Israeli Society - Daniel Gutwein......Page 306
Conclusion: Diaspora, Identity and Nation-Building - Paschalis M. Kitromilides......Page 324
Notes......Page 334
Index......Page 420
