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With the latest POD possible, POD no earlier than 1000, how could you create a Jewish majority country in Belarus region?
Not going to work. Even sparsely populated Jewish Autonomous Oblast in Siberia never got over 20% Jews.latest pod would involve the ussr sending all their Jews to that region.
Not going to work. Even sparsely populated Jewish Autonomous Oblast in Siberia never got over 20% Jews.
How? After a most clumsy and poor Jewish fraction will be transferred, the problems associated with transfer will snowball to catastrophic proportions, likely resulting in outright cancellation of transfer. Industry and R&D of Soviet Union falling apart in every region besides Belarus is the most straightforward consequence. Absolute majority of early Soviet engineer/scientists, and large fraction of communist party leadership were Jews.the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in Siberia never contained anywhere near ALL the Jews in the USSR. I said moving ALL the Jews in USSR into the area of Belarus would be the pod.
This is probably the best way to fulfill this AHC.OTL, Jews moved to the region that is now Belarus because of progressive policies under the PLC, and then stayed there after the Partitions because Russia wouldn't let them leave.
The latest PoD is...if you could make Imperial Russia restrict the Pale of Settlement to being mostly that region, instead of basically all former PLC lands in Russia. I'm not sure you could quite tip Jews into a majority in the whole of modern Belarus, but you'd get close (assuming only moderate deaths due to the forced relocation).
If that country ever manages to break free from Russia: BAM!
OTL, Jews moved to the region that is now Belarus because of progressive policies under the PLC, and then stayed there after the Partitions because Russia wouldn't let them leave.
The latest PoD is...if you could make Imperial Russia restrict the Pale of Settlement to being mostly that region, instead of basically all former PLC lands in Russia. I'm not sure you could quite tip Jews into a majority in the whole of modern Belarus, but you'd get close (assuming only moderate deaths due to the forced relocation).
If that country ever manages to break free from Russia: BAM!
Would the language of this Jewish kingdom, formed in the aftermath of a Belarus-sized Russian Pale, be the Germanic Yiddish? Or would it be an East Slavic language?This is probably the best way to fulfill this AHC.
Probably Germanic Yiddish.Would the language of this Jewish kingdom, formed in the aftermath of a Belarus-sized Russian Pale, be the Germanic Yiddish? Or would it be an East Slavic language?