AH Challenge: Strong Jewish working class/left wing politics

Before WWII, there was a strong European Jewish working class. There used to be plenty of Jewish labor unions (see Bundism, for example) and Socialist/Communist Jewish organizations all across Europe and even the United States. Even Marx himself was Jewish, and so were others like Trotsky or Zinoviev.

So, the challenge is, with a POD after January 1, 1900, make most European nations -and other non-European ones, like the United States or Argentina- have an important Jewish working class and a strong Jewish involvement in Socialist politics by 2010.

(And please, make your answers more elaborated than "No Holocaust")

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I'd think that they'd still be rather small in size even if the Holocaust didn't happen. And of course, there's Israel to contend with; Zionism is going to convince a lot of people to move away.
 
If the Soviets do better in the early stages of WWII, Odessa's strong Jewish working class (that also provided the bulk of the city's mafiosi) won't take hits, regardless of what the Nazis do.

Of course, given how Odessa is a lot closer to the border, that's kind of a problem. Perhaps the Romanians don't massacre Jews in occupied territory like they did OTL?
 

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No WW2, perhaps a civil war in the Soviet Union that sees large numbers of Eastern European Jews flee to the Americas because the Europeans won't take them. Actually, the best option would be to have the Whites win in Russia and continue the crack downs and pogroms on Jews, which causes them to flee to the Americas if they can afford it. Maybe an active program by the Russians to push out the Jews?
 

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And of course, there's Israel to contend with; Zionism is going to convince a lot of people to move away.
I dunno about that. Zionism without WWII is going to be much different that it was IOTL since the Brits aren't going to have to contend with a flood of refugees/terrorist militiamen pouring into Palestine which eventually made them throw in the towel.

No Holocaust or WWII also means that Jews aren't as alienated from their neighbors as they were post-War. Nazi occupation brought out the absolute worst in a lot of occupied countries' populations. Places where Jews had lived well and peaceably with their Gentile neighbors turned into frothing horror houses of anti-Semitism once the Nazis rolled in, which understandably made most of the Jewish survivors...uncomfortable with sticking around.

Besides, Zionism was really a Western Jewry-driven thing. Eastern Jewry was generally ambivalent or virulently opposed to the heresy of returning to Israel before God Himself gave it back to them. Eastern Jewry (the majority of Jewry, that is), didn't see its home. Their clay was the clay of some Litvak shtetl, and their air the air of the steppes, not some sun-baked desert in a godforsaken backwater.
 
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