Kat Graff, Wilderness Journeys: 6/19/25
A crucial question for the study of Jewishness is the relationship between identity and environment. Diaspora, scattering, conventionally refers to a “group of people who have … become dispersed beyond their traditional homeland or point of origin” (OED).[1]] In other words, diasporic identity locates itself in the experience of living the difference between the present “host” place and the point of origin, the “mother” place, which is geographically and temporally absent. We find this theme also in feminist discourse, for instance in Alicia Ostriker’s unanswered question, “Does there exist, as a subterranean current below the surface structure of male-oriented language, [...]
