Jewish Serbo-Croatian politity in Balkans

What if along Orthodox, Catholic und Muslim states also a maybe smaller Serbo-Christian Judaistic ethnicity developes with an own territory? Could there bei conditions that allows Serbo- Christian speakers" pulling a "Chasar ?​
 
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It's possible that the Ottomans, in the style of Empires since forever, will make rules that encourage Jews to move to the region, and support rulings that allow locals to convert. They weren't a big Muslim conversion machine, they seemed to be happy enough to flip between divide and conquer and relative magnanimity towards their religious populations, like most Empires.

They're unlikely to have a good time.

Thessaloniki was a center of Jewish life for centuries, they had an okay time for most of that, and a golden age for a decent chunk of it. No Nazis, maybe no organized Aaliyah or Zionism, and it could still be majority Jewish today. It's not creating a Jewish version of the Serb-Croat-Bosniak division/connection though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Thessaloniki


That was all under Ottoman rule, the conversion of some in the Serb-Croat-Bosniak group to Islam, and the support for Jewish community in Thessaloniki. Something between the two isn't impossible.
 
Many Jews from Spain fled to the Balkans. You could have a Serbo-Croatian speaking Sephardic polity methinks.

Dubrovnik, Mostar, and Kotor could be a good general area for the Jews to settle.
 
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Could there bei conditions that allows Serbo- Christian speakers" pulling a "Chasar ?

More Jews in the Balkans in Late Antiquity? They were already there after all. The problem is there isn't much reason for Slavic tribes to convert to Judaism when the Christian Romans and Franks surround them. But maybe some short lived Jewish Slavic state could exist before it's destroyed, and the survivors integrate deeper into the Jewish community and form a substantial local population.
 

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The problem is, there never were Jews in any relevant numbers here, their populations were always tiny - and where they were in considerable numbers, Greek was spoken. It's mostly because there was no specific niche to fulfill in society here.
 
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