>>511042741Azeri mountain Jews, "Bene Israel" weird pseudo-Jews in Goa and Mumbai and the Shanghai/Beijing China-Jews are my personal favorites. they're like rare pokemon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bene_Israel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Jews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassoon_family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_China
i didn't know karaite jews are patrilineal, that's interesting. very fascinating community. apparently they have lived in the black sea region for thousands of years so they got official letters of exemption from the pogroms from both the russians/ukrainians and the nazis (there are also suggestions that they possess rare manuscripts telling the real story of biblical/old testament history, knowledge capable of turning the entire world upside down by proving that all powerful people throughout history have been bullshitting the population, so they are powerful enough that nobody fucks with them)