rootlessness, n.Definitions

Rootlessness (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the charge laid on Jews who had first been prevented from putting down roots.

Rootlessness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the abyss a good story makes palpable: we become the monsters' legends as they once were ours.

Rootlessness (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the source of the 'enlarged tribal consciousness': people with no definite home who felt at home wherever other members of their tribe lived — 'we do not gravitate toward Vienna but to whatever place Germans may live in.'