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Jewish Diaspora: Europe
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While the ‘vanishing diaspora’ darkens these young people’s narratives, they ... suggest new contemporary European Jewish possibilities. On the one hand, young Irish Jewish emigrants, deterred by a rigid community leadership hierarchy and a lack of investment in their Jewish future, can be seen as part of a brain drain and a loss to the Irish-Jewish community. They can also be seen as a symptom of an Irish-Jewish future, where, despite Ireland’s nascent multi-ethnicity, there will very soon be no significant Jewish-Irish presence.
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Nephesh Theatre promises 'New Theatre from the Jewish Diaspora'. The company have five plays in English which they intend to tour in Europe in 2008. One of these is 'Gimpel The Fool', appearing as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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[One] avenue taken by the Jewish Diaspora featured the Ashkenazim, Jews who settled in the Rhineland area of Germany (“Ashkenaz” in Hebrew) during the early medieval period. Between 1000 and 1500, because of expulsions and migrations paralleling the spread of the German states into eastern Europe, the Ashkenazim spread across Poland and Hungary, as far south as the Danube in the Balkans and as far west as the Dnieper in present-day Russia and Ukraine. Yiddish — their dialect of medieval German, written with Hebrew characters — became the lingua franca for an extensive and vibrant culture.
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