Meaning of diasporism | Babel Free

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Synonym of doikeyt.

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“What do I mean⟳ by home? Not the nation state; not religious worship⟳; not the deepest grief of a people marked by hatred. I mean⟳ a commitment to what is and is not mine; to the strangeness of others, to my strangeness to others; to common threads twisted with surprise⟳. Diasporism takes root in the Jewish Socialist Labor Bund’s principle of doikayt — hereness — the right to be, and to fight⟳ for justice, wherever we are...Doikayt is about wanting to be citizens, to have⟳ rights, to not worry⟳ about being shipped off at any moment where someone else thinks you do or don’t belong⟳…I name⟳ this commitment Diasporism.”

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