Golus nationalism

Nathan Birnbaum in the 1910s, the main thinker and activist behind Diaspora Nationalism.

Golus nationalism (Yiddish: גלות נאַציאָנאַליזם Golus natsionalizm after golus, Hebrew: לאומיות גולוס, romanizedGālūṯ leumiyút), or diaspora nationalism, is a national movement of the Jewish people that argues for furthering Jewish national and cultural life in centers of large Jewish communities throughout the world while simultaneously seeking recognition for a Jewish national identity from world powers.[1] The term golus has been understood to mean both "diaspora" and "exile."[2]

  1. ^ Goldsmith, Emanuel S. (1997). Modern Yiddish Culture: The Story of the Yiddish Language Movement. Fordham Univ Press. p. 107. ISBN 0823216950.
  2. ^ Underhill, Karen (2018). "Bruno Schulz's Galician Diasporism: On the 1937 Essay "E. M. Lilien" and Rokhl Korn's Review of Cinnamon Shops". Jewish Social Studies. 24 (1): 1–33. doi:10.2979/jewisocistud.24.1.01. ISSN 0021-6704. JSTOR 10.2979/jewisocistud.24.1.01. S2CID 165386804.