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Diaspora (stylized as diaspora*) is a nonprofit, user-owned, distributed social network. It consists of a group of independently owned nodes (called pods ) which interoperate to form the network. The social network is not owned by any one person or entity, keeping it from being subject to corporate take-overs or advertising.
A diaspora ( / daɪˈæspərə / dy-ASP-ər-ə) is a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin. [3] [4] The word is used in reference to people who identify with a specific geographic location, but currently reside elsewhere. [5] [6] [7]
The Messiah in Judaism ( Hebrew: מָשִׁיחַ, romanized : māšīaḥ) is a savior and liberator figure in Jewish eschatology who is believed to be the future redeemer of the Jews. The concept of messianism originated in Judaism, [1] [2] and in the Hebrew Bible a messiah is a king or High Priest of Israel traditionally anointed with holy ...
The Jewish diaspora ( Hebrew: תְּפוּצָה, romanized : təfūṣā) or exile (Hebrew: גָּלוּת gālūṯ; Yiddish: golus) [a] is the dispersion of Israelites or Jews out of their ancient ancestral homeland (the Land of Israel) and their subsequent settlement in other parts of the globe. [3] [4]
This terminology has also been reflected within some groups of the Rusyn diaspora. For example, the popular newspaper of the Byzantine (Greek) Catholic Church in the U.S. for decades known as the ‘Greek Catholic Union Messenger’, used the term Carpatho-Russian up until the 1950s (by the 1960s the term Ruthenian came into vogue).
A meshulach ( Hebrew: מְשׁוּלָּח, romanized : meshullaḥ; plural: meshulachim ), also known as a shaliach ( Hebrew: שָלִיחַ, romanized : shali'aḥ) [1] or SHaDaR ( Hebrew: שַׁדָּ״ר, acronym for שָׁלִיחַ דְרַבָּנָן ), [note 1] was an emissary sent to the Diaspora to raise funds ( ḥalukka) for the ...
This is the second-largest Vietnamese diaspora group, found mainly in the former Soviet Union and the ex-Warsaw Pact countries of Eastern Europe. Economic migrants who work in other Asian countries such Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. This includes Vietnamese women who married men from these countries through illegal marriage agencies. These ...
Golus nationalism (Yiddish: גלות נאַציאָנאַליזם Golus natsionalizm after golus, Hebrew: לאומיות גולוס, romanized: Gālūṯ leumiyút), or Diaspora Nationalism, is a national movement of the Jewish people that argues for furthering Jewish national and cultural life in the large Jewish centers throughout the world, while at the same time seeking recognition for a ...