diasporism
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]diasporism (uncountable)
- Synonym of doikeyt
- 2007 06, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism, →ISBN:
- 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.