Homelands and Diasporas

Minna Rozen is Professor of History at Haifa University. A distinguished scholar who has also taught in the US and France, she has conducted research projects in Turkey, Romania, Russia, the Ukraine, France, Italy and England. Her previous publications include A History of the Jewish Community in Istanbul: The Formative Years 1453-1566, Haskoy Cemetery: Typology of Stones and The last Ottoman Century and Beyond: The Jews in Turkey and the Balkans 1808-1945.

List of Contributors – 11-15
Remarks on the Method of Transliteration – 17-18
Acknowledgements – 19-20

Preface – 21-32
Introduction: People of the Book, People of the Sea: Mirror Images of the Soul (Minna Rozen) – 35-81

Part 1: The Genesis of Diasporas
Chapter One: Exile – The Biblical Perspectives (Bustenay Oded) – 85-92
Chapter Two: Between Greek Colony and Mother-City: Some Reflections (Panagiotis N. Doukellis) – 93-106


Part II: Pre-Modern Diaspora: Patterns of Behavior
Chapter One: The Jewish Politeuma in Alexandria: A Pattern of Jewish Communal Life in the Greco-Roman Diaspora (Aryeh Kasher) – 109-125
Chapter Two: Collective Expatriations of Greeks in the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries (Anastassia Papadia-Lala) – 127-133
Part III: The Diaspora In Its Various Guises
A. The Greek Diaspora: Practical Solutions
Chapter One: Reconstituting Community: Cultural Differentiation and Identity Politics in Christian Orthodox Communities during the Late Ottoman Era (Haris Exertzoglou) – 137-154
Chapter Two: The ‘Old’ Diaspora, the ‘New’ Diaspora, and the Greek Diaspora in the Eighteenth through Nineteenth Centuries Vienna (Vasiliki Seirinidou) – 155-159
Chapter Three: Greek Diaspora in Southern Russia in the Eighteenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Vassilis Kardasis) – 161-167
Chapter Four: Central and Peripheral Communities in the Greek Diaspora: Interlocal and Local Economic, Political, and Cultural Networks in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Olga Katsiardi-Hering) – 169-180
B. The Jewish Diaspora: Spiritual Solutions
Chapter Five: A Land Adored Yet Feared: The Land of Israel in Jewish Tradition (Aviezer Ravitsky) – 183-210
Chapter Six: Spain, Greece or Jerusalem? The Yearning for the Motherland in the Poetry of Greek Jews (Shmuel Refael) – 211-223
Part IV: The Modern World and Its Demise

Chapter One: Breaks ad Continuities in German-Jewish Identity (Yfaat Weiss) – 227-234
Chapter Two: The Metamorphosis of Pre-Dubnovian Autonomism into Diaspora Jewish Nationalism (Marcos Silber) – 235-255
Chapter Three: Does Money Talk? The Struggle between American Zionists and the Yishuv in the Early 1940s (Zohar Segev) – 257-278
Chapter Four: Greek Orthodox Church Networks in the Near East and the Emergence of Arab Nationalism (1899-1947) (Sotirios Roussos) – 279-292
Chapter Five: Center and Diaspora in the Struggle for Human Rights: The State of Israel and the Jewish ‘Desaparecidos’ in Argentina during the Military Regime (1976-1983) (Efraim Zadoff) – 293-303
Chapter Six: Jewish Diaspora and the Privatization of Israeli Society (Daniel Gutwein) – 305-322
Conclusion: Diaspora, Identity, and Nation-Building (Paschalis M. Kitromilides) – 323-331
Notes – 333-417
Index – 419-444