The beginning of the Jewish Diaspora is traditionally cites as the period between the 8th and 6th centuries BC when the kingdoms of Israel and Judah were destroyed, the first Temple ( 586 BC) was destroyed and their population sent to Babylonian slavery.
The diaspora is also linked to the destruction of the Second Temple and the consequences of the failed Bar Kohba uprising against Roman rule over Judea in the 1st and 2nd centuries.
