DIASPORA - Definition

Pronunciation:		dI'aspuru
WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] the dispersion of the Jews from Palestine after the Babylonian exile (358 BC)

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	See Also:	dispersion, scattering

Products Dictionary

	Definition:	Diaspora This two-volume work celebrates the diversity of the Jewish diaspora. It includes photographs by Fridiric Brenner, who spent 25 years traveling to Jewish communities around the globe, and commentary by Derrida, Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimlet, Carlos Fuentes, George Steiner, and others. more details ...

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Dias"pora\, n. [Gr. ?. See {Diaspore}.] Lit., ``Dispersion.'' -- applied collectively: (a) To those Jews who, after the Exile, were scattered through the Old World, and afterwards to Jewish Christians living among heathen. Cf. --James i. 1. (b) By extension, to Christians isolated from their own communion, as among the Moravians to those living, usually as missionaries, outside of the parent congregation.