For a while now despite not being sure how realistic the following scenario is, I have trying to weave together a Pre-WW2 ATL where the Japanese Fugu Plan is successful, with a Yiddish-speaking post-Jewish state coming into being called Yudayakuo by the Japanese (or Yidisher Medine in Yiddish) later renamed Birobijan, that manages to survive up to today as well as imagining there being a rivalry or feud of sorts between Yiddish-speaking Birobijan (on the East-side of Asia) and Hebrew-speaking Israel (on the West-side of Asia).
Yudayakuo / Birobijan is a neutral Soviet-conceived Japanese-founded Yiddish-speaking state, located in the alternate Japanese-occupied part of Russian Outer Manchuria in the following image (in light red as a rough example) with its capital being Birosalem (Biroshalaim in Yiddish or Birosaremu in Japanese).
The alternate movement advocating for a “Soviet Zion” in East Asia was called Yiddishism, which believes Yiddish not the revived Hebrew language to be the true language of the forward-thinking Jewish Working-class and later evolved into a competing Jewish nationalism seeking to found a Eurasian Soviet Zion against the Land of Israel based Zionism movement, which Yiddishists consider to be backward-thinking, with the alternate State of Israel coming into being in the 1930s a few years after Yudayakuo came into being.
It manages to survive WW2 due to its quiet neutrality as well as partly due to the alternate Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact that was never broken (in spite of being on opposite sides), along with the Japanese largely turning a blind eye towards Jewish Partisans secretly fighting for the Soviets despite the Nazis continual demands for Japan invade the Soviet Union and dissolve Yudayakuo, which fell on deaf ears (and soured relations between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan).
Though while encouraging Jewish immigration to Yudayakuo was in the Japanese interest towards realising the Fugu Plan, the emigration of non-fighting Jewish refugees and the prospect of resolving their own Jewish question was what ultimately motivated the Soviets.
Post-WW2, Yudayakuo renames itself as the People’s Democratic Republic of Birobijan and joins the Communist Bloc; though like the Mongolian People's Republic it is not a Soviet Satellite State.
It adopted “Never Say / Zog Nit Keynmol”, also known as the Partizaner Lid or "Partisan song" as the Birobijani national anthem in tribute to Jewish Partisans that fought with the Soviet Union against the Nazis, while the alternate Birobijani national flag is basically 7 Rainbow colours on a vertical axis (meant to vaguely symbolise the menorah and somewhat resembling the real-life flag for the Jewish Autonomous Oblast) within a Gold Star of David on a Red background, with the currency of Birobijan being the Birobijani Gelt.
Birobijan used to see the State of Israel as a fellow comrade in some respects because of its entrenched European leftist establishment despite at the same time viewing Israel as backward for clinging to the past due to returning to the Land of Israel instead of embracing the future, though it eventually becomes hostile to Israel and soon adopts a Pro-Arab view when Israel started aligning with the Western camp. Israeli citizens in turn increasingly seeing Birobijan as a sort of cartoonish pro-exilic post-Jewish communist-ruled Eurasian Ruritania, even though Birobijan had by then adopted PRC-style State Capitalism.
In today’s alternate Post-Communist era, I envision Birobijan resembling a sort of Yiddish-speaking semi-Europeanised far-eastern Hong Kong with a somewhat decadent and shallow secular post-soviet Yiddish culture, shorn of its religious roots that possesses a socialist-variation of Prussian-like cultural traits such as professionalism and an energetic competitive industrial prowess (a trait from Germans Jewish refugees / German refugees of Jewish descent).
Yudayakuo / Birobijan is a neutral Soviet-conceived Japanese-founded Yiddish-speaking state, located in the alternate Japanese-occupied part of Russian Outer Manchuria in the following image (in light red as a rough example) with its capital being Birosalem (Biroshalaim in Yiddish or Birosaremu in Japanese).
The alternate movement advocating for a “Soviet Zion” in East Asia was called Yiddishism, which believes Yiddish not the revived Hebrew language to be the true language of the forward-thinking Jewish Working-class and later evolved into a competing Jewish nationalism seeking to found a Eurasian Soviet Zion against the Land of Israel based Zionism movement, which Yiddishists consider to be backward-thinking, with the alternate State of Israel coming into being in the 1930s a few years after Yudayakuo came into being.
It manages to survive WW2 due to its quiet neutrality as well as partly due to the alternate Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact that was never broken (in spite of being on opposite sides), along with the Japanese largely turning a blind eye towards Jewish Partisans secretly fighting for the Soviets despite the Nazis continual demands for Japan invade the Soviet Union and dissolve Yudayakuo, which fell on deaf ears (and soured relations between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan).
Though while encouraging Jewish immigration to Yudayakuo was in the Japanese interest towards realising the Fugu Plan, the emigration of non-fighting Jewish refugees and the prospect of resolving their own Jewish question was what ultimately motivated the Soviets.
Post-WW2, Yudayakuo renames itself as the People’s Democratic Republic of Birobijan and joins the Communist Bloc; though like the Mongolian People's Republic it is not a Soviet Satellite State.
It adopted “Never Say / Zog Nit Keynmol”, also known as the Partizaner Lid or "Partisan song" as the Birobijani national anthem in tribute to Jewish Partisans that fought with the Soviet Union against the Nazis, while the alternate Birobijani national flag is basically 7 Rainbow colours on a vertical axis (meant to vaguely symbolise the menorah and somewhat resembling the real-life flag for the Jewish Autonomous Oblast) within a Gold Star of David on a Red background, with the currency of Birobijan being the Birobijani Gelt.
Birobijan used to see the State of Israel as a fellow comrade in some respects because of its entrenched European leftist establishment despite at the same time viewing Israel as backward for clinging to the past due to returning to the Land of Israel instead of embracing the future, though it eventually becomes hostile to Israel and soon adopts a Pro-Arab view when Israel started aligning with the Western camp. Israeli citizens in turn increasingly seeing Birobijan as a sort of cartoonish pro-exilic post-Jewish communist-ruled Eurasian Ruritania, even though Birobijan had by then adopted PRC-style State Capitalism.
In today’s alternate Post-Communist era, I envision Birobijan resembling a sort of Yiddish-speaking semi-Europeanised far-eastern Hong Kong with a somewhat decadent and shallow secular post-soviet Yiddish culture, shorn of its religious roots that possesses a socialist-variation of Prussian-like cultural traits such as professionalism and an energetic competitive industrial prowess (a trait from Germans Jewish refugees / German refugees of Jewish descent).
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