Other viable Jewish homeland aside from Palestine

Which places where Jewish people can settle peacefully aside from Palestine?

  • Patagonia

    Votes: 11 20.0%
  • Uganda

    Votes: 9 16.4%
  • Kimberley

    Votes: 8 14.5%
  • Guyana

    Votes: 4 7.3%
  • Madagascar

    Votes: 17 30.9%
  • Mindanao

    Votes: 4 7.3%
  • Alaska

    Votes: 19 34.5%
  • Other (please specify)

    Votes: 16 29.1%

  • Total voters
    55
Jewish Kimberly was never likely for a variety of reasons but under different political circumstances would be an excellent location. Extremely small population, massive area, vast natural resources. The trick is creating a political situation in Australia that would allow for it to happen, and for there to be a serious push among European Jews to go there.
 
Alaska might work. At best a large Jewish population helps Alaska gain statehood earlier. Perhaps Alaska becomes the 49th state in the thirties during the Roosevelt administration (New Deal project) or immediately after WWII.

You could have Jewish leaders offering to help populate Alaska for the US government at the beginning of the 20th century. Russian Jews could head east through Siberia and take up
Residence there. Russian Jews would be used to the cold
Weather so I think Alaskan weather would not be a show stopper. The Jews could build up the infrastructure of Anchorage for example. Alaska is pretty isolated with a small non- native population so I don't think you have to worry about an anti-Semite movement starting up among Christian whites. As far as the Indians/Eskimos I think the state is big enough that they won't be bothered. The only problem I can think of is that could large scale farming be possible to feed all these Jewish settlers.
 

Greenville

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Bermuda, the Bahamas, and other Carribean Islands controlled by the British. A small portion of them can go there. Even Belize makes sense and is just as warm as Israel.
 
Assuming this is pre-ww2, you need to convince Jewish people to go there. Otherwise, why sell off your property, businesses, etc. to take the risk. Before the breakup of Europe into ethnic states at the end of WW1, the Jews didn't need a homeland, as they lived in multi-ethnic countries.
 

CaliGuy

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Alaska might work. At best a large Jewish population helps Alaska gain statehood earlier. Perhaps Alaska becomes the 49th state in the thirties during the Roosevelt administration (New Deal project) or immediately after WWII.

You could have Jewish leaders offering to help populate Alaska for the US government at the beginning of the 20th century. Russian Jews could head east through Siberia and take up
Residence there. Russian Jews would be used to the cold
Weather so I think Alaskan weather would not be a show stopper. The Jews could build up the infrastructure of Anchorage for example. Alaska is pretty isolated with a small non- native population so I don't think you have to worry about an anti-Semite movement starting up among Christian whites. As far as the Indians/Eskimos I think the state is big enough that they won't be bothered. The only problem I can think of is that could large scale farming be possible to feed all these Jewish settlers.
The Jews of Alaska can buy food from other countries.

However, isn't Alaska much colder than most of European Russia?
 
If Stalin created a legit, pogrom-free Jewish enclave in Crimea, say prior to 1932, do folks like Szilard and Fermi flee there instead of the U.S. (potentially giving Stalin the A-Bomb first) because it's closer and overland ?
 
Nobody in their right mind flees in to Stalin's USSR unless the devil himself is on their heels and even then it is a close call. In the USSR at that time you had your nationality on your internal passport, and if you were Jewish by heritage, no matter how non-observant you were it said "Zhid".

"Comrade you are using the labor of Soviet citizens and Soviet materials to build a synagogue for religious worship as well as teaching youngsters religious superstition against the teachings of Marx and Lenin? Come we will will give you a train ride to a new home in the GULAG where you can put all that energy to useful work."
 
Give the Jewish people one of the states that America just had to take from the natives, but barely bothered using. Wyoming, or a Dakota (who needs two?), or possibly Oregon or Alaska so they can have a coastline.
 
Realistically, of the options available, only Alaska and Patagonia are appealing because they are sparsely populated enough in the late 19th/early 20th century that Jewish migrants could swamp the native inhabitants. Every other option is going to have large and probably angry minorities (or even majorities) of non-Jews. Think that the current discourse among the left about Israel is hostile in OTL? Just imagine what it would be like if the paralells between apartheid South Africa and 'Israel' are even stronger AND there is no way to claim that the Jews were the indigenous populace of that land. It would be nasty.

I suppose another potential option is to punish Germany, Austria, and Italy at the end of the Second World War by ethnically cleansing a chunk of all three countries and creating Israel there, but apart from the morality of that action, it could stall de-Nazificiation and I'm not sure many Jews are going to want to be in close proximity to Germany post-Holocaust.

teg
 
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What about Baja California. To help out Mexico with it's chronic money problems the US offers to buy Baja California and turn it into a refugee center/resettlement for the Jewish people as an alternative to Sinkiang?
 
Pre WWII POD? I wonder if establishing the Salonica region as at the least someplace Jews can flee to has a chance.

Post Shoah? I still say that if Stalin is going to empty out East Prussia he could have at least focused on opening it up as a more viable 'ethnic oblast' than a corner of furthest Siberia
 
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