ABSTRACT
Pentateuch almost 2,000 years of history that proceeded the period identified by the Dalai Lama, exile and Diaspora have been a factor in the history of the people that became the Jews. The Diaspora exists taking the form of Jewish settlements all around the Mediterranean most usually in major cities and/or seaports. The Jewish Diaspora was outstanding in its ability to preserve and perpetuate its identity at considerable distance from the homeland and over large stretches of time. Hebrew Melodies is, in part, Byron's attempt to make use of the genre of national melodies popularized in the English-speaking world by Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies. Ethnic resettlement and religious diffusion went hand in hand, as settlers brought with them ancestral cults and won for their god's new worshippers among the local population. The enactments of Diaspora expulsion that take place in Hebrew Melodies hint at a larger issue than that of how the Jews fared in the Diaspora that they inhabited.
