I'm no scholar, so help me out here. Did Jews ever try to impose Judaism on anyone else?
I'm just historically ignorant on that one.
I can step in here on this one. To the best of my knowledge, it’s actually against the ideals of Judaism to try to force the worship of YHWH on anyone. After all, forced worship is worthless to One who can see the inner thoughts of a man.
The same is true of Christian ideals. The practice of forced conversions is not in keeping with the idea that God sees the inner thoughts of a man and a forced conversion is meaningless.
“. Did Jews ever try to impose Judaism on anyone else?”
Well, Jewish people obviously objected to fellow Jewish people who lapsed, became pagan, or Christian, and aggressive action was often taken.
But, I do agree, Judaism was never imposed by the sword on non-Jewish people like most other religions do.
Nope. In fact, Judaism discourages conversion by non-Jews to Judaism, and makes conversion a long and difficult process to make sure that it’s for the right reasons, etc.