If anything - losing and surviving makes you more likely to write what you went through than just winning. And people who believe their pasts were better than futures tend to look into history more.
History is mostly written by survivors, and losing is a powerful motivation for self-reflection.
You can even see it in US with the different attitude people have towards civil war history. How many hardcore civil war history enthusiasts do you know that are mostly interested in Union?
Yeah... I don't know how it is these days, but my history lessons covered being attacked and under occupation for a very long time. But when Poland expanded the size, it just happened in the background. It's ok, I'm sure nobody was affected and it wasn't worth mentioning. Let's just be proud that it reached from sea to sea.
To your point: not to sound like an antisemitic conspiracy theorist, but it's pretty clear that while the Jewish people have been the victims of many tragedies, they also have managed to accumulate a great deal of political soft power as well, even while being a disadvantaged minority.
That's why certain types are so obsessed over the so-called "culture war". While some people just want a right to live and love who they want, the currently dominant cultural factions see that as a threat to their ability to, among other things, control the narrative of history for their own gain.
That's what Jews have been doing for 2000 years and their history is one of the best studied out there.
When a society wins political power - it looks into the future. A few eggheads will write the history but nobody'll read it.
Soft power is secondary - it comes FROM losing and focusing on history. Victors go split the loot, losers go write how they were the "moral winners".
Afrofuturism didn't come from winning any kind of political power. It came from the opposite. Similarly, white American males aren't fascinated by Rome, the American Civil War, and WW2 because they collectively lack any representation or political power.