Diaspora: Jews Amongst Greeks and Romans.(Book Review)

The Historian | June 22, 2004| | Copyright

Diaspora: Jews amongst Greeks and Romans. By Erich S. Gruen. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 386. $39.95.)

In Jewish history, "diaspora" (golah in Hebrew) is a loaded term. Historically, it often designates a move away from the land of Israel, a forced migration in the wake of a national catastrophe such as the failure of the revolt against Rome under Nero (66-74 CE). Geographically, the term diaspora embraces every single place where Jews lived (and live) outside the land of Israel. Yet from the very start of "Jewish" history, indeed with the ...

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