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  • (Interestingly, the manifesto uses the pejorative term golah - exile - rather than the more neutral tefutsot - diaspora.)

    Charlottesville Blogs 2009

  • (Interestingly, the manifesto uses the pejorative term golah - exile - rather than the more neutral tefutsot - diaspora.)

    Charlottesville Blogs 2009

  • American Zionists never subscribed to the European Zionist emphasis upon shelilat ha-golah [the negation of the diaspora].

    Zionism in the United States. 2009

  • That religious edicts would dictate his life again now as they did his ancesters in the golah.

    Can you smell the Kumah rising? | Jewschool 2007

  • Also, given demographics and the low Jewish birthrate in the golah, how do you think this will affect diasporah Judaism?

    Pan-Judaism? | Jewschool 2004

  • Esther, with abated breath, timidly asked my pardon for intruding, while she declared I had made so bitter an enemy of Unga-golah, -- the head-woman of the seraglio, -- that, in spite of danger, she stole to my quarters with a warning.

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

  • Unga-golah knows all the Mandingo _jujus_, and she will have no scruple in using them in order to secure once more the control of the store keys.

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

  • Unga-golah, the eldest and least delectable of the dames, maintained the establishment's police, assigned gifts or servants to each female, and distributed her master's favors according to the bribes she was cajoled by.

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

  • I heard, however, from Esther, that during my illness, Unga-golah used her opportunities so profitably in the warehouse, that there would be sad deficiencies, which, doubtless, might be thrown on me, if the crone were badly disposed at any future period.

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

  • When my companion departed on a long journey, he counselled me to make up with Unga-golah, the _harem's_ Cerberus, as she suspected my intimacy with Esther, who would doubtless be denounced to Ormond, unless I purchased the beldame's silence.

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

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