Any population sharing common ethnic identity who were either forced to leave or voluntarily left their settled territory, and became residents in areas often far removed from the former.
the dispersion of the Jews from Palestine after the Babylonian exile (358 BC)
the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)
the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel; from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 587-86 BC when they were exiled to Babylonia up to the present time
the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel
