Placing Time: The Diasporic Journey to Beulah

This article sets out to retrieve a concept of diaspora - deeply rooted in Jewish tradition but somewhat eclipsed in the Jewish imagination today - in which dispersion is understood as exile and return is deferred to 'the end of days'. The argument is developed via a conversation between D...

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Published in:	European Judaism Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 56 - 67
Main Author:	Klug, Brian
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam Berghahn Journals 22-03-2017 Berghahn Books, Inc
Subjects:	Analysis Beliefs, opinions and attitudes Diaspora Grossman, David (Israeli writer) Jewish diaspora Jewish identity Jewish people Judaism Justice, Hope and Redemption: Jewish Perspectives Philosophers Writers Israel
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Summary:	This article sets out to retrieve a concept of diaspora - deeply rooted in Jewish tradition but somewhat eclipsed in the Jewish imagination today - in which dispersion is understood as exile and return is deferred to 'the end of days'. The argument is developed via a conversation between David Grossman and Amos Oz in 2003, in which Grossman reflects on the question 'Are we a people of place or of time?' Pursuing this question leads to a passage in Isaiah in which the prophetic author refers to Zion as Beulah. Beulah is Zion under the aspect of hope, Zion as the prospect of redemption, the end of exile in the here and now.
ISSN:	0014-3006 1752-2323
DOI:	10.3167/ej.2017.500108