With a POD anytime after 1800, how big a percentage of the US population can be Jewish? Would 5% be possible?
If the founders banned Christianity all Americans wouldn’t be Jews the founders heads would be chopped offThe Great Awakening involves mass conversions to Judaism or the founders adopt Judaism, or some variant where America is Zion, as the national religion.
One the other religions are banned all Americans would be Jews.
Yeesh, more than it already is?
I was just joking. It's just that a lot of America's achievements tend to come from Jewish immigrants, and all.Yes, more Jewish than 98% gentile, if you can imagine such a thing.
If we can butterfly most of the deaths from the Holocaust then there might be up to 32 million Jews alive today. If the Holocaust is partially mitigated by America allowing immense Jewish immigration (instead of drastically restricting it through quotas etc.) then a huge proportion of those Jews could have migrated to America. Most of the world's Jews could end up in America if the success of Zionism is also partially mitigated (by e.g. increased anti-Jewish-immigration measures in the British mandate so Jews fleeing European oppression head to America, or make Israel lose the '48 war so all the Jews that fled from Arab & Muslim states would go to America instead, etc.).
Unless (as @Galba Otho Vitelius proposes) there's a huge wave of Jewish conversion, that's probably max between fifteen and thirty million Jews in America. There are currently OTL 325.7 million Americans. And assuming literally nothing else changes from OTL, that means an absolute max 1/10th of the current USA. Which is pushing the limits of plausibility: it requires almost all of the world's Jews to live in America and for America to otherwise be exactly the same population. Both are unlikely imho
Have Israel lose the 6 Day War. You’d get plenty of Jewish refugees fleeing to the US.
There actually was a large Jewish community in the American South- in Charleston, South Carolina, to be exact. They were mainly Sephardic Jews and were well enough integrated into American society at the time that Judah P. Benjamin, a Jew, was a major Confederate leader during the Civil War.WI in the early 1700s "colonial Zionism" develops? The Jews manage to get enough capital from someone to establish a "New Israel" somewhere in the Americas--maybe OTL Georgia or Nova Scotia?--and joins the American colonies. From there, they somehow write their state constitution to guarantee a cultural establishment of Judaism without violating the Seperation clause...
There actually was a large Jewish community in the American South- in Charleston, South Carolina, to be exact. They were mainly Sephardic Jews and were well enough integrated into American society at the time that Judah P. Benjamin, a Jew, was a major Confederate leader during the Civil War.