A Yiddishland in Europe?

Add in the Night of the Murdered Poets (13 of the most prominent Yiddish-language poets were murdered), the Doctors' plot conspiracy theory, labeling Soviet Jews as "rootless cosmopolitans", and post-1948 Soviet antisemitism and destruction of Jewish culture (Yiddish theaters were closed, Yiddish-language publishing houses were closed, Jewish museums were closed, the leading members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee were arrested and charged with treason), it's not really possible for a Jewish SSR (or even ASSR) to be established in the Soviet Union.

Even the Jewish Autonomous Oblast never got to more than little over 16% Jewish in 1939, and that was with a massive state and international propaganda campaign.

Considering it was Stalin, you could just have him decide to relocate the Jews to the ASSR (I doubt there'd be a Jewish SSR).
 
In theory, wi instead Trotsky is leader instead or someone else. maybe he adopts Stalins plan and makes Crimea a homeland, it kind of makes sense. Even if it isn't a primary one, maybe it's a situation where you end up with two homelands instead of just carving up Palestine.
 
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