AHC: US state settled by Jewish People

Assuming the Jews got along with the Mormons, I might think Idaho is the best bet. The issue is, most immigrating Jews were geared for urban environments as opposed to homesteading. Most of the settlement would have to be between 1870 and 1890. The problem would be the coverage of railroads in the most arable regions.
 

kernals12

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Assuming the Jews got along with the Mormons, I might think Idaho is the best bet. The issue is, most immigrating Jews were geared for urban environments as opposed to homesteading. Most of the settlement would have to be between 1870 and 1890. The problem would be the coverage of railroads in the most arable regions.
They managed well in Israel.
 
Perhaps it doesn't need to be all of Texas. Galveston Island and the surrounding area being a separate state could possibly work. This is all before the establishment of the Republic of Texas after all.
That's an interesting idea completely without historical precedent, so I dunno.

They managed well in Israel.
The Kibbutz movement was expressly a turn against the "Old Jew" - urban, mercantile, and weak - towards the "New Jew" - rural, self-reliant, and Socialist. It was a specific outgrowth of the Zionist idea of "revitalizing the land" and whatnot.
Replicating it elsewhere doesn't seem likely. Jews going to America isn't particularly different from Jews going anywhere else. And the general trend of that was for Jews to go to urban centers, unless there's a specific funding mechanism for their rural settlement (see: the Argentinian gauchos were funded by industrialist Baron Maurice de Hirsch).
 
They managed well in Israel.
That mindset came in the twentieth century after the Holocaust. In the nineteenth century, more Jews were inclined to pursue the skills they already used, and farming was secondary to many. Besides, Israel offered far more shipping and commerce than the Rocky Mountains.
 
The Kibbutz movement was expressly a turn against the "Old Jew" - urban, mercantile, and weak - towards the "New Jew" - rural, self-reliant, and Socialist. It was a specific outgrowth of the Zionist idea of "revitalizing the land" and whatnot.
Replicating it elsewhere doesn't seem likely. Jews going to America isn't particularly different from Jews going anywhere else. And the general trend of that was for Jews to go to urban centers, unless there's a specific funding mechanism for their rural settlement (see: the Argentinian gauchos were funded by industrialist Baron Maurice de Hirsch).

I know you're not responding to me, but this is partly why I think the idea of a Jewish Hong Kong in Galveston (that is, a trade-based island community just off the coast) could work fairly well in the early-to-mid 19th century.
 
Do what the Mormons did - pick a patch of sparsely inhabited Western land out of the way, flood it with a few thousand people. And lwt Demographics do the rest.
 
Do what the Mormons did - pick a patch of sparsely inhabited Western land out of the way, flood it with a few thousand people. And lwt Demographics do the rest.
The Snake River valley in Idaho would be one of the best candidates. You would, though, need a POD that drives a large group into homesteading in the west. In the late 19th century, large numbers of Jews came to the US, but most stopped in eastern cities.
 
I know you're not responding to me, but this is partly why I think the idea of a Jewish Hong Kong in Galveston (that is, a trade-based island community just off the coast) could work fairly well in the early-to-mid 19th century.
I don't disagree. But I have doubts that it could become a state by itself separate from the rest of Texas.
 
Why would he? The Zionist Congress was strongly against any plan that put a Jewish state outside the Jewish homeland. They rejected Uganda. Why would they accept Oklahoma?

I'm interested as to why, as they were not particularly religious, and the return to the Holy Land thing has overwhelming religious implications by definition, surely? And Palestine at that time was an sleepy, deserty poor land.
 
I'm interested as to why, as they were not particularly religious, and the return to the Holy Land thing has overwhelming religious implications by definition, surely? And Palestine at that time was an sleepy, deserty poor land.
Because it wasn't a religious decision. Imagine, for a brief moment, offering the Palestinians a state in Canada. How do you think that would go?
The Jewish people have a strong cultural connection to the land of our ancestors, just the same as every other nation feels towards the land of their own ancestors.
 

Zioneer

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With a POD after 1810 and before 1870 have one of America's frontier territories be settled by Jewish settlers, similar to how the Mormons settled Utah.
Funnily enough, there was an attempt at a Jewish colony in Utah itself, in what's now the ghost town of Clarion, Utah. It lasted about... six years. The attempt was after your proposed POD, but it's an interesting historical tidbit anyway.
 

kernals12

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Funnily enough, there was an attempt at a Jewish colony in Utah itself, in what's now the ghost town of Clarion, Utah. It lasted about... six years. The attempt was after your proposed POD, but it's an interesting historical tidbit anyway.
That would be interesting if we had a Utah that was 50-50 Mormon-Jewish.
 
Jewish immigration into the Rockies could change the borders of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, etc. so you do have state that is majority Jewish.
 
Germany had a sizeable Jewish community.
From data available at the Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, the two biggest contributors to Jewish immigration to the US were Austria-Hungary and Russia. Germany ranked third. Those were the big three; there was a sizable gulf between Germany and the fourth biggest contributor (not sure which nation; might have been Romania but I wouldn't bet more than a cup of coffee on that).
 
How about Radical Republicans treat the South as harshly as possible,resulting in military occupation for decades.To build a loyalist population alongside the freedmen,the government uses Jewish immigrants,making the former Confederacy the only place for them to settle. As far as legalities,this timeline would obviously be more authoritarian.
 

kernals12

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How about Radical Republicans treat the South as harshly as possible,resulting in military occupation for decades.To build a loyalist population alongside the freedmen,the government uses Jewish immigrants,making the former Confederacy the only place for them to settle. As far as legalities,this timeline would obviously be more authoritarian.
For blacks, it would be less authoritarian with no Jim Crow.
 
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