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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 315 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DISPERSION (from See also:Lat. dispergere, to scatter) , the See also:act or See also:process of separation and See also:distribution. Apart from the technical use of the See also:term, especially in See also:optics (see below), the expression particularly applied to the settlements of See also:Jews in See also:foreign countries outside See also:Palestine. These were either voluntary, for purposes of See also:trade and See also:commerce, or the results of See also:conquest, such as the captivities of See also:Assyria and. Babylonia. The word diaspora (Gr. &avaopa) is also used of these scattered communities, but is usually confined to the dispersion among the Hellenic and See also:Roman peoples, or to the See also:body of See also:Christian Jews outside Palestine (see JEws).

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