Example sentences for: diaspora

How can you use “diaspora” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If indeed Russian is the principal language of the current Jewish Diaspora, balagan , at least in Milton Horowitz's example where it applied to a computer screen, might have come directly from Russian into Hebrew without the intermediary of Yiddish.

  • But recent experiences in San Francisco, as well as casual earlier observations in the New York area and in Israel suggest to me that Russian is to the current Ashkenazic Diaspora what Yiddish was to earlier Jewish communities in Europe and America.

  • It's understandable why this fantasy of flight would take root in black America, which, at numerous moments in its history, has been given reason to fear that conditions in the diaspora can never be improved.

  • It's the "Diaspora chic" Eric Liu described earlier in Slate: the recent tendency of American minorities to think of themselves as communities in exile, a component of the greater national obsession with finding one's roots.

  • In their shared view, the locus of cultural and economic sovereignty is now the diaspora; the unit of human agency, the race.


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