AHC - have a majority Jewish state outside of Israel

Idea of estabilishing Jewish state in Palestine predates 1900. So this is right forum to discuss alternate location of Israel.

Some of the ideas of alternatives to Palestine predate 1900. But the post I was replying to dealt with Birobidzhan, which was definitely a twentieth century idea.
 

Brunaburh

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Firstly, many communist Jews were Trotskyist. Then there war many non-communist jews and there was many jews flying from the USSR.

Not all Jews went to Israel, you don't need all Jews to ho this Jewish Communist state. If the national aspect of the Jewish state convinced a section of those who had identified with the Bund before, I don't see why it couldn't work. And while you are right that Jews were prominent among Trotskyites, there were plenty of orthodox Communist Jews, the British Communist Party had strong Jewish support, and they made up a disproportionate part of its membership.

Lots of Jews were also conservative and religious. They would not be happy under communist rule.

Where was God at Auschwitz?
 
Not all Jews went to Israel, you don't need all Jews to ho this Jewish Communist state. If the national aspect of the Jewish state convinced a section of those who had identified with the Bund before, I don't see why it couldn't work. And while you are right that Jews were prominent among Trotskyites, there were plenty of orthodox Communist Jews, the British Communist Party had strong Jewish support, and they made up a disproportionate part of its membership.

British Jew wouldn't probably emigrate in masse. Nor would American Jews. And I would think USSR had a lot less support from eastern european Jews.
 
Maybe during the christian reformation someone decides that christianity is a heresy of Judaism and decides to convert to Judaism. Have alot people do that any you may see numerous Jewish states in the formerly Christian world. This is assuming you want to create a majority jewish state on the basis of religon and not ethnicity.
 
How can we have a majority Jewish state outside of Israel survive independently. I'd especially like to see getting it to last to the present-day. I think the only one I know about is the Kingdom of Himyar in Yemen.
This Jewish kingdom in Arabia in the early Middle Ages
 
How can we have a majority Jewish state outside of Israel survive independently. I'd especially like to see getting it to last to the present-day. I think the only one I know about is the Kingdom of Himyar in Yemen.

I have an idea, but the PoD would require a twentieth century PoD and this Jewish state wouldn't gain independence until 1991. IOTL, Molotov proposed to bring all the Soviet Jews together in the Crimea and turn it into the Jewish SSR and Stalin briefly entertained the notion, but eventually turned against. So let's say he goes along with it and all Soviet Jews are concentrated in the Crimea to replace the Tatars that Stalin has just deported because of their alleged collaboration with the Germans in WW II. Then 1991 comes along and the USSR dissolves as IOTL and the Crimea becomes an independent Jewish state, albeit with significant Ukrainian and Russian minorities, which is still independent by 2018.
 
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