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See also:DISPERSION (from See also:Lat. dispergere, to scatter) , the See also:act or See also:process of separation and See also:distribution . Apart from the technical use of the See also:term, especially in See also:optics (see below), the expression particularly applied to the settlements of See also:Jews in See also:foreign countries outside See also:Palestine . These were either voluntary, for purposes of See also:trade and See also:commerce, or the results of See also:conquest, such as the captivities of See also:Assyria and . Babylonia . The word diaspora (Gr . &avaopa) is also used of these scattered communities, but is usually confined to the See also:dispersion among the Hellenic and See also:Roman peoples, or to the See also:body of See also:Christian Jews outside Palestine (see JEws) . |
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