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The last few decades of interdisciplinary scholarship on culture, politics, and identity have been marked by a lively and still-expanding interest in comparative dynamics of diaspora, especially the interactions of diasporic formations with the nation states that serve variously as their ‘homelands’ and their ‘hosts’. My own participation in that multidisciplinary and intercultural discourse has been inspired by my strong identification with something I have become accustomed to call Jewishness — neither necessarily nor solely the Jewish religion nor a people called ‘the Jews’ — combined with a fairly consistent disaffiliation with two nation states, the United States and Israel. In terms of positive cultural content, that combination of identifications and disidentifications primarily resulted in a commitment to Yiddish culture, which may fairly be referred to as a diasporic culture par excellence and perhaps even as a culture of resistance in the age of monolithic territorial nationalisms.
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Boyarin, J. (2015). Reconsidering ‘Diaspora’. In: Garnett, J., Hausner, S.L. (eds) Religion in Diaspora. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137400307_2
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