http://www.modicumofmodernity.com/original-ibm/
How common is the belief amongst Jews that converts & their offspring will always be inferior Jews?
"Halevi (12th century Jewish mystic) meets the problem of conversion by arguing that converts are indeed not the equals of native Jews and that only after many generations, so it would seem, can their descendants be fully amalgamated into the Jewish people. To adopt a brilliant and amusing metaphor of Daniel J. Lasker's, just as IBM PC clones may run the same software as original IBM hardware, but are still not the real thing; so, too, converts may believe what native Jews believe, and act as they do (software), they are still not the same as native Jews (hardware)."
Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People (1991)
Menachem Marc Kellner
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6HlxxKP1AtAC&lpg=PA5&ots=fik19PoUQN&dq=jewish%20converts%20inferior&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q=%22Halevi%20meets%20the%22&f=false
It probably depends on which group of Jews.
I read through the section of the book on that website. HaLevi was probably a bit crazy and shouldn't be considered a part of mainstream Judaism even at that time. http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=643&letter=J
I question whether Kellner translated all the works as he said. To do so, he'd have to be fluent in medieval German for HaLevi, Medieval Arabic for Maimonedes, Latin, Aramaic and Hebrew.
The key word is "Inferior." There are many places in the Talmud that say that a convert stands in a place higher than the highest high priest can stand. So the party line is converts occupy a superior, not an inferior place.
The question is what "equal" means. It's true a convert won't know all the traditions a person who has lived it all their lives would know it. But many Jewish people by birth don't know them either.
Many converts have expressed they feel they have a Jewish soul. This does match what the Zohar says where a Jewish soul may be placed in gentiles for up to six generations so they can have the merit of coming back. (It also points out a Jewish belief that souls do reincarnate in new bodies. Not all Jewish people believe this.)
There is a simple proof of the esteem held of converts. Abraham was a convert, although we could debate at which point he converted. Ruth was also a convert, and was David's grandmother. It kind of tosses out the "many generations" concept.
Moses' wife, Zipporah, was also a convert. So was Rabbi Akiva, who wrote much of the commentary in the Talmud. The two heads of the Sanhedrin prior to Hillel and Shammai were also converts.
Back to the top on my answer. Today, it probably depends on which community you are in. In the communities I've been a part of, there have been no issues at all.
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