| − | A '''diaspora''' is the scattering of a people (esp. of the [[Jewish]]) away from their homeland. The first diaspora scattered them across the ancient world after they had been held captive in [[Babylon]] in the sixth century BC. The second diaspora was in AD 132 when the [[Roman]]s destroyed the Jewish state and dispersed the Jewish people to faraway lands. | + | [[File:Kurdish jewish family Rowendez Iraq.jpg|thumb|Kurdish Jewish family members from the small town of Rowndiz in Iraq, taken in 1905.]] |