“In the rest of the diaspora, persecution gave the Jews no respite, but in Babylonia, under Persian rule, they lived for some centuries comparatively free from molestation.“
—Simon Dubnow and J. Friedlander, Jewish History (1903)
“[I]t became…misleading to see the American Jewish community as part of the diaspora at all. Jews in America felt themselves more American than Jews in Israel felt themselves Israeli.“
—Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews (1998)
“The most traumatic, of course, was the African Diaspora, when entire nations, after enduring captivity and enslavement, were subjected to a perilous journey across the Atlantic to the Americas, where they were sold at auction and forced to labour on sugar, cotton, and coffee plantations.“
—Miriam DeCosta-Willis, Daughters of the Diaspora: Afra-Hispanic Writers (2003)
“That English has developed a number of varieties in its diaspora is also beyond debate.“
—Eli Hinkel, Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning, Volume 2 (2011)