yofie
Banned
These days, OTL, there are small Karaite (=following the Bible and not also the Talmud) Jewish communities in places like Israel, Turkey, Crimea, and the San Francisco Bay area - with the total worldwide Karaite population being only 30-40 thousand. Is there a POD or two to make Karaite populations in the present day and in the last few centuries as large and self-sustaining as (or at least approaching) the regular Jewish populations? In other words, how can we have Crimean/Eastern European Karaites (speaking Karaim, a Turkic equivalent of Yiddish) rival Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern/Central Europe, how can we have Middle Eastern/Turkish Karaites rival the Sephardi/Mizrahi Jews of the Mediterranean Basin and the Middle East, etc.?
And did the Karaites become much smaller demographically OTL partly because Karaism attracted a relatively smaller portion of adherents as compared to, say, Hasidism or Reform Judaism?
And did the Karaites become much smaller demographically OTL partly because Karaism attracted a relatively smaller portion of adherents as compared to, say, Hasidism or Reform Judaism?