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Diaspora   /daɪˈæspərə/   Listen
Diaspora

noun
1.
The body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel.
2.
The dispersion of the Jews outside Israel; from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 587-86 BC when they were exiled to Babylonia up to the present time.
3.
The dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture).






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