how to say “Diaspora” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/התפוצות-#.m4a” /]הַתְּפוּצוֹת
The Hebrew word for exile is גלות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/התפוצות-#.m4a” /], as in:
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/התפוצות-#.m4a” /]עם ישראל היה אלפיים שנה בגלות.
The People of Israel were two thousand years in exile.
But what about the specific places that the Jews inhabited בגלות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/התפוצות-#.m4a” /] – in the exile? There’s a special word for these: התפוצות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/התפוצות-#.m4a” /] – the Diaspora, as in:
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/התפוצות-#.m4a” /]רמת ההתבוללות ביהדות התפוצות היא גבוהה מאוד.
The level of assimilation among Diaspora Jewry is very high.
תפוצות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/התפוצות-#.m4a” /] means literally distributions. Although typically referring to the Jewish diaspora, תפוצות could also refer to diaspora of other displaced peoples.
A single diaspora community is a תפוצה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/התפוצות-#.m4a” /].
