‘<i>Am Yisrael Chai!</i>(The Nation of Israel Lives!)’: Stark Reminders of Home in the Reproduction of Ethno-Diasporic Identity
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Abstract
The transnationalism literature has redefined the concept of diaspora, claiming it to be de-rooted, de-centred and detached from the nation-state rhetoric of ‘one nation, one land’, primordial belonging and common origins. In this article I revisit the Jewish diaspora, once the classic case, as it navigates the reality—and tension—of its own transformation: from myth to reality of homeland return, although most have not returned. Specifically, I analyse March of the Living (MOL), a Holocaust education programme for international Jewish youth, that seeks to resolve this tension and shape the next generation of Jewish diasporans by strategically moving between old and new understandings of identity, homeland and diaspora. Discussed in this article are the various ways in which MOL emphasises to its participants the boundaries—and centre(s)—of Jewish diasporic identity. I conclude that transnational redefinitions of diaspora fail to adequately capture the mechanisms of all diasporic processes. The Jewish case calls for an in-between form of old and new diaspora that challenges but also recognises persistent claims of ethno-diasporic identity as essentialised and ultimately rooted in the homeland.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".