The Paradigm Shift Within the Georgian Jewish Narrative Schemes

Basically each epoch of Georgian history reveals the concomitance of a main central line and of several branch junctions within the grand narrative schemes dealing with Georgian Jewry.

This broad question should be divided into different sub-questions:

• The attitude towards the Hebrews in ancient Georgian culture could be characterized by two ways of narration: 1. from the perspective of the authentic Georgian master narrative of the medieval historical source Conversion of Kartlithat played a crucial role in building the Georgian grand narrative of the Georgian Jews as an own, unique and exceptional Jewry. 2. As a deviation from this general path and as a tribute to the global Christian perspective as a micro, non-authentic Georgian narrative, the anti-Jewish texts that appeared invariably as translations on the surface of Georgian literature.
• The compliance of the master-narrative schemes within Georgian society (expressed in the beloved legend of the 26 centuries-long Georgian-Jewish togetherness) and of the recently ascending micro or parallel-narrative as the mark of incredulity towards this grand narrative, which claims to re-question and re-examine the still dominant, emotionally exuberant image of the above-named togetherness, which became a fixed “concept” without a legitimate alternative transformative “process”.
• The dispute inside of Georgian Jewry – of the traditional master-narrative followers and their opponents who are arguing for the necessity to overcome the emotionally draining impasse that induces the observation of the problems of the Georgian Jewish community exclusively in the light of the nature of emotional or nostalgic memories of pre-Aliyah.