ABSTRACT
If a school, in the sense of the present chapter, implies commonality of thought, a shared intellectual orientation, or theoretical framework, it also implies other, more worldly attributes: a home in some sense, a time and place, some kind of institutional infrastructure, a whole microsociology. It implies an enclave, more or less open on the outside, but where inside and outside are nevertheless distinguishable: a small world, in effect. There is an evidence, if any were needed, that schools and circles of intellectuals, including even the small world of translation studies, are deeply implicated in the politics and tension of the big world of capital-H History. The scholars of the Tel Aviv School were to find themselves shut out from full participation by historical forces beyond their control, then the minor scandal of Toury's expulsion from an out-of-the-way corner of the academic small world might prove after all to be a portent of bigger, and worse, exclusions to come.
