Exile or Diaspora?

JL;DR SUMMARY In the debate between Salo Wittmayer Baron and Yitzhak Baer concerning the nature of Jewish diaspora, Baron, advocating a positive view of American multicultural liberalism, believes in the richness of cultural pluralism and the safety it offers to Jews as part of the majority in the United States. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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