I'm a "cashew" (mother's side Jewish, father's side Catholic, self-identify strongly as Jewish) and I can tell you that you are FAR from alone in that conundrum - what to do about being white but not quite and where these debates aren't about you but you don't know where your voice belongs.
I bet there are plenty of works with the half-Jewish protagonist,
Are there? I'm having a devil of a time coming up with even accurate representations of Jewish protagonists, not to mention half-Jewish (especially non-Holocaust representations) - and I mean ones where the character is actively Jewish, not just remembers their faith for the special Hanukah episode.
[and YES on the issues within Judaism. I have a friend who ID's as Jewish but wasn't raised overly Jewish and it's from her father's side and she's constantly wondering whether she really counts. And another friend whose mother was Ashkenazi and father was Sephardic and there was MASSIVE family drama when his parents got married. Not to mention my own family dealing with how to handle people who have married-in and converted)
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I'm a "cashew" (mother's side Jewish, father's side Catholic, self-identify strongly as Jewish) and I can tell you that you are FAR from alone in that conundrum - what to do about being white but not quite and where these debates aren't about you but you don't know where your voice belongs.
I bet there are plenty of works with the half-Jewish protagonist,
Are there? I'm having a devil of a time coming up with even accurate representations of Jewish protagonists, not to mention half-Jewish (especially non-Holocaust representations) - and I mean ones where the character is actively Jewish, not just remembers their faith for the special Hanukah episode.
[and YES on the issues within Judaism. I have a friend who ID's as Jewish but wasn't raised overly Jewish and it's from her father's side and she's constantly wondering whether she really counts. And another friend whose mother was Ashkenazi and father was Sephardic and there was MASSIVE family drama when his parents got married. Not to mention my own family dealing with how to handle people who have married-in and converted)
So, yeah, just know you aren't flailing alone.