Perhaps have the pagan German kings feeling pressure to become monotheist, but not wanting to submit to their Christian rivals, becoming Jewish? The Khazars and Himyarites converted to Judaism for similar reasons.
Just, no.....on so many levels. But you're right one point. It's hard. For one: That influx of Russian and Eastern European Jews into Germany is going to raise the German anti-semetic meters to maximum, with nasty consequences for the Jews of Germany.
Just, no.....on so many levels. But you're right one point. It's hard. For one: That influx of Russian and Eastern European Jews into Germany is going to raise the German anti-semetic meters to maximum, with nasty consequences for the Jews of Germany.
Second, Russia has to do some sustained Pogroms. This will be easy.
OK in 1900 we have 56 million Germans and 11 million Jews (in the world. This is going to be hard. OK let's try this:
1. Early industrialization of Germany.
2. Unification or partial unification that leads (perhaps along with industrialization) to a more liberal Germany with full Jewish emancipation.
3. Lots of Jews from Eastern Europe flock to Germany (including most that went to the US IOTL) looking for jobs and whatnot. Also less Jewish conversation to Christianity.
4. Hitler analogue rises in Russia rants and raves about evil Jews, leading to more Jewish emigration from the east into Germany.
5. Make non-Jewish German birthrates lower than IOTL for some reason and keep Jewish birth rates high (lots of Orthodox groups have crazy high birth rates, should be doable).
6. Jews are especially common in the Ruhr and western Germany in general as that's where a lot of the industry and jobs are.
7. War between Russian Hitler analogue and liberal Germany.
8. Russia wins, occupying the bulk of Germany. Jews especially likely to flee west from Russian armies.
9. A rump Germany survives along the Rhine with French protection.
10. Some Germans convert to Judaism and it becomes a symbol of German resistance against the evil Russians after some especially glorious Jewish Germans die as war heroes.
11. This rump Germany gets (barely) a Jewish majority after a while.
Perhaps have the pagan German kings feeling pressure to become monotheist, but not wanting to submit to their Christian rivals, becoming Jewish? The Khazars and Himyarites converted to Judaism for similar reasons.
If Prussia is vicious enough in the ethnic cleansing you have it do in this scenario, this just might work, since a sufficiently great reduction of the Polish population (incidentally, where would the displaced go?) could indeed make it possible for a relatively small number of Jewish immigrants to tip the balance.
I've noticed that you have claimed multiple times that 'Russia/Poland does Pogroms' is a simple way to move very large numbers of Jews to some specific location. Even after 120 years of exposure to the Russian Empire IOTL, Jews made up about 10% of the population almost everywhere west of the Dnieper. It seems to me that this implies that achieving the movement of populations on such a scale is not 'easy'. Could you elaborate?
I don't remember talking a lot about this issue outside of my ATL, which had very specific conditions which made it likely and was set in a time with massive population movements. And there are issues with the OstJews being less desirable to German than the more Germanized (Modernized is another word used) Jews. For various reasons in my ATL, the Kaiser and Hapsburgs found it convenient to ignore these issues.
In WW1 IOTL, Armenians, Greeks, Turks, Jews, and Germans were resettle by the war or the interwar years….
BTW, there were branches of Judaism that seperated from one another as time went on(Conservative and Reform from Orthodox). I figure why not have a branch that promotoes proselytizing and go from there.
My point about Russia concerned massive, large-scale emigration. Russian Jews largely stayed where they were for 150 years, if the Russians had really wanted them gone that very badly it would probably have been enough time to do something about it. To tip the balance in a mostly depopulated region, the trickle which departed IOTL should be enough.