Overview
We can roughly discern three Jewish origin stories.
Jews who lived with Christians, Jews who lived with Muslims,
and other.
Other, encompassing half the world, accounts for less than 1% of Jews. There (South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Oceania, Sub-Saharan Africa), they seem to have fully assimilated.
Among Muslims and Christians however, fascinating divergences appear. The Christian side seems more eventful, for better and worse. We discover therein a flurry of Nobel prizes, as well as the nightmare of the Holocaust.
Are there good reasons to push this history out into mainstream consciousness? Can it undermine antisemitism, to showcase a whole world of "normal" Jews? Is the coinage and contraction of "Ashkenism" valid?
Discussion
We're planning a series of interviews, podcast episodes,
X spaces, informal chats and other fora on this topic. Stay tuned.
Book
After discussions are held, critically showcasing opposing and adverse viewpoints,
then we can consider bookwriting. On the strength of the above discourse, if we write, we hope to do the topic justice.
Feedback
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