Talk:Jewishness

Why? Jewishness is being or seeming to be jewish, while Jewish peoplehood is awareness of the fact that one belongs to the group. Please see this from my perspective. The article Franz Kafka I was reading speaks of the Jewishness of a piece of writing. How can a piece of writing, which is an inanimate object, be aware of anything? I came here to learn about this thing called "Jewishness" and found an article on something else because of this redirect. Also, could not a person at least theoretically exhibit his Jewishness to someone, while himself not being aware that he or she possessed any of this quality? I mean, one could ask whether a Jewish baby who was orphaned in China and raised by Chinese peasants who had no idea that he was Jewish and therefore the child would never realize it, could not one wonder whether such a person would exhibit any Jewishness despite by definition having no Jewish peoplehood, defined as awareness that one belongs to the Jewish people. If we can at least ask whether he would exhibit any Jewishness (we clearly can) then ispo facto Jewishness is not the same as Jewish peoplehood. There are probably many people who are Jewish without any such peoplehood. Maybe the problem lies in the way the article Jewish Peoplehood is written. Chrisrus (talk) 03:40, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

I propose that this redirect be redirected to a Wiktionary definition. It would be more useful that way. Chrisrus (talk) 03:51, 28 April 2011 (UTC)