In this article I attempt to lay out at least the bones of an argument for a shift in the terms of world Jewish life. Against the Hobson’s choice of “religion” or “state,” I offer an older paradigm of diaspora nation, the Yiddishe Folk. Because I am opposed to both the mononational state and cosmopolitanism (of the classic Appiah-like variety), I work out a description (not fully defined) of diaspora that comprises dual loyalties, to the place where I am and especially its oppressed people and to others of my nation scattered in many places (ideally!). This statement constitutes a vade mecum to a longer manifesto to be published by Yale University Press, late in 2022.

在这篇文章中，我试图至少列出一个论据的骨架，即改变世界犹太人生活的术语。针对霍布森对“宗教”或“国家”的选择，我提出了一个更古老的散居民族范式，即意第绪人。因为我反对单一民族国家和世界主义（经典的类似阿皮亚的变种），我制定了一个包含双重忠诚的侨民描述（未完全定义），对我所在的地方，特别是对它的受压迫人民和给分散在许多地方的我国其他人（理想情况下！）。该声明构成了耶鲁大学出版社将于 2022 年底出版的更长宣言的补充。