AHC: Avert at least one Jewish expulsion

[Mort the Reaper]

Throughout history, Jews have experienced a huge number of forced mass expulsions. They were compelled to leave cities, regions, and even entire countries.

Your challenge is to prevent at least one of these expulsions from happening.

 

[Atterdag]

Hungary may be the easiest one, as it was reversed only a few years later by the same king.

 

[Jimbo808]

I think the expulsion of Jewish people during Plantagenet England could be averted.

 

[Alexfc]

Portugal's jewish expulsion is pretty easy to butterfly away: they only really kicked out the jews because they wanted to marry the spanish, which they demanded to kick out jews for the marriage to work out. So no marriage with Castille means no 1497 expulsion of jews.

 

[JanWellem]

The 1744 Christmas expulsion of Prague Jews, especially since they were allowed to return just 4 years later. Hadn't Maria Theresia been about to give birth to one of her many children in December 1744 and thus incommunicado, the appeals by many important personalities of the time, among them several electors and even the pope, to rescind her expulsion edict, might have reached her in time. Once they did it had been too late and Prague's Jewish community had been forced from their homes in the dead cold of winter.

 

[Byzantion]

Throughout history, Jews have experienced a huge number of forced mass expulsions. They were compelled to leave cities, regions, and even entire countries.

Your challenge is to prevent at least one of these expulsions from happening.

Ferdinand and Isabella dont become rulers of a united Spain, final Reconquista doesn´t happen in 1492.

 

[isabella]

Portugal's jewish expulsion is pretty easy to butterfly away: they only really kicked out the jews because they wanted to marry the spanish, which they demanded to kick out jews for the marriage to work out. So no marriage with Castille means no 1497 expulsion of jews.

No, because Manuel has too many good reason for wanting marry Isabella of Castile and Aragon (other being quite in love with her)

 

[danteheadman]

Most Moroccan Jews left Morocco not because they were expelled but because they wanted to live in Israel.

Butterfly Israel and Moroccan Jews will remain there. Most Jews fleeing 20th century antisemitism in Arab countries (cough) would probably go there, too.

 

[Lalli]

Ferdinand and Isabella dont become rulers of a united Spain, final Reconquista doesn´t happen in 1492.

Wasn't Islamic Iberia pretty weak already in early 15th century? Perhaps just make the Catholic Majesteties more tolerate. Castile and Aragon tolerated Jews pretty long in OTL.

 

[Prince de Pringondani]

The Kings of Aragon had Jewish ancestors with la Paloma make them more Judeophile

 

[Kaze]

Egypt under Moses? Just kidding.

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I would go with the English expulsion - it could be done easily by getting rid of a single riot.

 

[EWHM]

Change the usury religious laws to their final incarnation early---which is essentially Shariah finance, which allows interest but only on non-recourse loans. In practice this means the bank can lend against collateral but can only collect the collateral if the loan fails. This is a little more restrictive than typical finance today, but not all that much in practice (most loans in most states are non-recourse, and bankruptcy laws allow 'roll your own' jubilees). But the key point is it would mean that Jews don't become middleman minorities in the finance sector to anywhere near the degree they did historically. This is likely to butterfly a ton of expulsions.

 

[Marc]

Wasn't Islamic Iberia pretty weak already in early 15th century? Perhaps just make the Catholic Majesteties more tolerate. Castile and Aragon tolerated Jews pretty long in OTL.

My review of Christian Hispanic relations with Jews was that it started going down hill with the Visigoths. The tradition of deep antisemitism wasn't necessarily worse in Iberia, but it was just about as bad it was elsewhere - actually perhaps it was, due to how well Jews managed under the Moors and how the Spanish took that.
Marginally, I think you might construct a supposing where Portugal didn't banish, but it still would a chancy scenario.