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u/turtledovefairy7 Sephardic 7d ago edited 7d ago

I have started studying other diasporic languages of the Jewish people. I really want to connect more with Jewish history and culture from all over the world and not only with that of my direct ancestors, even if I can’t advance in the same rhythm everywhere beyond the languages I picked up earlier. The full extent of our history attracts me so much more than the abandonment of our communities for the instrumentalized ideal of a more homogenized nationalization of a colonial state. For me our diasporic variation is so beautiful! and it would have been even more so if it were allowed to thrive without discrimination to its full potential. Although, of course, we ultimately were shaped by everything we went through, even surviving antisemitism and all the tragedies that fell over us were an integral part of our history like it ended up happening the real world.