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4 unusual facts about Diaspora


Diaspora

Galil, Gershon, & Weinfeld, Moshe, Studies in Historical Geography and Biblical Historiography: Presented to Zekharyah Ḳalai, BRILL, 2000

Lizaola

The first immigration to the West was during the latter half of the 19th century, political unrest, paired with economic uncertainty, in many countries of the Old World resulted in a Diaspora that brought many people to North America.

Monte Santo de Minas

Since around 2005 there have been a Diaspora from Monte Santo to Campinas (see Brazilian Silicon Valley), composed mostly of young men looking for better opportunities as qualified IT technicians.

Sarepta

In Hebrew after the Diaspora, the name Zarephath (צרפת, ts-r-f-t, Tsarfat) is used to mean France, perhaps because the Hebrew letters ts-r-f, if reversed, become f-r-ts.


Afrolicious

In addition to the following releases, Afrolicious is loosely affiliated with a worldwide group of DJs, producers, bands, and labels who produce contemporary soulful dance music inspired by sounds of the African diaspora, including Antibalas, Chico Mann, Nickodemus, DJ Smash, Wonderwheel Recordings, Subsuelo, and Cumba Mela.

Akwa Ibom State Association of Nigeria, USA Inc.

, otherwise known as AKISAN is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in the United States of America, which promotes the interests of the citizens of Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria both in the homeland and the diaspora.

Anya Verkhovskaya

Verkhovskaya has served on the Advisory Committee for New Émigrés in New York City and is a founder and member of the Board of Directors of the Archive: Institute of Russian Jewish American Diaspora, New York City, Sir Martin Gilbert, Honorary Chair, a nonprofit organization founded to preserve the history and collective memory of the Jewish immigrant community from the former Soviet Union.

Arsénio Pompílio Pompeu de Carpo

Of all the contingents of this diaspora, freemasons certainly belonged to the category most persecuted by crown and church.

Arti Dhand

She has authored several publications including Woman as Fire, Woman as Sage: Sexual Ideology in the Mahabharata published in 2008 and numerous articles on topics such as "Engendering Brahmanirvanam in the Mahabharata: A Conversation between Suka and Sulabha," "Hinduism and Pedagogy: Teaching Hinduism to Hindus in the Canadian Diaspora," and "The Subversive Nature of Dharma in the Mahabharata: A Tale of Women, Smelly Ascetics, and God."

Belizean

Belizean people, people originating in Belize whether they live there or in the Belizean diaspora

Bridesman

The term is first noted by the encyclopedia Judaica from the European Jewish Diaspora of the middle of the 13th century.

Chakma people

Today, the geographic distribution of Chakmas is spread across Bangladesh and parts of northeastern India, western Burma, China and diaspora communities in North America and Europe.

Chota Char Dham

Buoyed by "religious tourism" and by the rise of a conservative Hindu population compelled by sites that speak to the existence of an all-India Hindu culture, the Chota Char Dham has become an important destination for pilgrims from throughout South Asia and the diaspora, particularly Bengalis, Marwaris, Oriyas, Marathis, Gujaratis, Delhites and people from Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand.

Crete Golf Club

It hosts such tournaments as the Aegean Airlines ProAM and the annual International Diaspora Tournament.

Crimean Goths

In "The Crimean Tatars: the diaspora experience and the forging of a nation" By Brian Glyn Williams they quote Vozgrin as saying; 'In all probability their descendents are the Tatars of a series of villages in the Crimea, who are sharply delineated from the inhabitants of neighboring villages by their tall height and other features characteristic of Scandinavians.

Crossing the River

:"With irony, understatement, and artful compression ... Phillips distills the African diaspora to an essence, bitter, and unforgettable." —Entertainment Weekly

Deyneka

Peter Deyneka (1897-1987), Russian-American evangelist and a missionary to the Russian diaspora

Dominican Spanish

Dominican Spanish is Spanish as spoken in the Dominican Republic, a Caribbean country, and throughout the Dominican diaspora, which is found mostly in the United States, chiefly in New York City, Boston, and Miami.

Fa'asamoa

The fa'asamoa consists of the Samoan language, and customs of relationships and culture, that is a traditional and continuing Polynesian lifestyle of the Pacific Islands and diaspora.

Flora Martirosian

President Serzh Sargsyan stated that she was "truly national", then continued "Audiences, which she collected in homeland and in the Diaspora, talk about the ethnic routes of her songs, which she has earned as a distinctive singer and Armenian artist".

Goans

Goans have been migrating all along the coast and across the world for the last six centuries because of many socio-religious and economic reasons, the diaspora are commonly known as the Konkani people, residing in the states of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Kerala who do not refer to themselves as Goans.

Goffal

Specifically suburbs mainly in Bulawayo (Thorngrove nicknamed Groove, Barham Green nicknamed B.G., Forrest Vale, Queens Park, Morningside) and Harare (Arcadia, Braeside,St. Martins) began to grow and gain a significant population but in recent years many have gone in diaspora with large groups in London, Milton Keynes, Dublin, Canada in cities and towns like St.Catharines/Hamilton/Burlington/Toronto and New Zealand.

Gusti Yehoshua Braverman

Gusti Yehoshua Braverman (Hebrew גוסטי יהושע ברוורמן) is the Chair of the World Zionist Organization's Department for Diaspora Activities.

Hazel Carby

One of her most influential contributions to African Diaspora studies came with her first book, Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist.

Japanese community of London

Junko Sakai, author of Japanese Bankers in the City of London: Language, Culture and Identity in the Japanese Diaspora, stated that there is no particular location for the Japanese community in London, but that the families of Japanese "company men" have a tendency of living in North London and West London.

Las Vegas Art Museum

LVAM celebrated Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art from the Neon Homeland curated by Dave Hickey from Sept. 30 to Dec. 30, 2007.

Lou Naumovski

Finally, Naumovski is together with the Macedonian ambassador to US Zoran Jolevski and entrepreneur Susan Niczowski an Honorary member of the Board of Directors of „Macedonia 2025", a non-profit international association of Macedonians in the Diaspora dedicated to supporting the economic and social development of the Republic of Macedonia.

Lydia Yudifovna Berdyaev

Lydia Yudifovna Berdyaev ( 20 August 1871, Kharkov, Russian Empire - September 1945, Clamart, France) was a Russian poet, member of Russian apostolate and leader of the Russian diaspora in France.

Murdeira

However, part of the needed materials comes from the island's capital Praya, the island capital Espargos and the diaspora.

Naamah Kelman

Her husband, Dr. Elan Ezrachi, is a former Israeli Air Force pilot, who specializes in Israeli relations with Jewish communities in the Diaspora.

Nigerian American

Nigerians in the Diaspora, including in Britain and the United States, have become well known for their educational prowess, as exemplified by the academic accomplishments of those such as Paula and Petter Imafidon, nine-year-old twins who are the youngest students ever to be admitted to high school in England.

Oshun

Miguel A. De La Torre, "Dancing with Ochún: Imagining How a Black Goddess Became White," in Black Religion and Aesthetics: Religious Thought and Life in Africa and the African Diaspora, Anthony Pinn, ed.

Pan-Armenian Games

During the founding meeting on April 30, 1997 in Yerevan, World Committee of Pan-Armenian Games (WCPAG) was created, with the help of traditional Armenian unions of the Diaspora and the Iranian-Armenian cultural-sport organization "Ararat".

Piana degli Albanesi

Luca Matranga (1567–1619), Orthodox priest, writer who gave the official start Albanian literature in diaspora.

Poles

The city of Curitiba has the second largest Polish diaspora in the world (after Chicago) and Polish music, dishes and culture are quite common in the region.

Post-Zionism

Post-Zionism refers to the opinions of some Israelis, diaspora Jews and others, particularly in academia, that Zionism has fulfilled its ideological mission with the creation of the modern State of Israel in 1948, and that Zionist ideology should therefore be considered at an end.

Russell Leong

"Chinese Characters in the Diaspora: Russell Charles Leong," by Stella Dong, in South China Morning Post, May 30, 2004 (Hong Kong)

Sekele language

A variety currently being investigated is Mangetti Dune !Kung, spoken by a resettled diaspora community of 500–1000 in Namibia and South Africa in the settlements of Mangetti Dune and Omtaku (Omatako?), east of Grootfontein, Namibia, halfway to the Botswana border; and in Schmidtsdrif, west of Kimberly, South Africa.

Shaggy

Shaggy Flores (born 1973), Nuyorican poet, writer and African diaspora scholar

Social alienation

Diaspora literature depicts the plights of these migrants, such as Hafid Bouazza in Paravion.

Sri Lanka Tamils

Sri Lankan Tamil dialects, unique Tamil-language dialects used in Sri Lanka by native Sri Lankan Tamil population and in the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora

Stone, Time, Touch

Stone, Time, Touch is a 2007 documentary made by Gariné Torossian about the relationship of three Armenian women from the diaspora with the land of Armenia.

Varadaraja V. Raman

In 2006 he was the recipient of the Raja Rao Award which recognizes writers who have made an outstanding contributions to the literature of the South Asian Diaspora.

Viktor Idzio

Other topics where he has produced monographs include such topics as "The Ukrainian diaspora in Russia", Ivan Franko, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Lesia Ukrainka, Hryhory Skovoroda, the development of religious thought in Ukraine.

Wael Zwaiter

Khalidi, Walid (1984): Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of the Palestinians, 1876-1948.

Wang tile

The short story Wang's Carpets, later expanded to the novel Diaspora, by Greg Egan, postulates a universe, complete with resident organisms and intelligent beings, embodied as Wang tiles implemented by patterns of complex molecules.

World Holocaust Forum

Among the guests of this event were the President of the European Parliament Martin Schultz, Israel’s Minister for Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Yuli Edelstein, as well as many other European officials and ambassadors.

World Uyghur Congress

Central Asia and the Caucasus: transnationalism and diaspora. Routledge.

Yehudai Gaon

He was author of the book Halachot Pesukot, which discusses those halachot that were practiced in the Diaspora since the destruction of the Second Temple.


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