Plausibility Check: Beta Israel and Yiddish Alaska

I am reading "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" (More of a Mystery than Alternate History), and I thought 'Where would the Jews go if Israel failed?

I'm pretty sure this topic has been touched upon, but I haven't seen one post about it so far.

My Friend offline proposed they'd go to Either the United States or Ethiopia, as they have signifigant Jewish Populations (Beta Israel).
IN the Novel, they are given their own sovereign nation in the then Alaskan Territory.

Where do you think displaced Jews would go?
 
Where do you think displaced Jews would go?

well lots of hardcore Zionists wouldn't leave if they weren't forced, Ethiopia is unlikely for a number of reasons not the lest of which is the Beta Israel weren't "confirmed" as Jews by the rest of Jewry till the 1970s (even then they had to undergo modified conversion ceremonies)

the US or UK is likely I'm betting more the US than UK, in the US they settle in NY and NJ like the rest of the Jews in the US.
 
I am reading "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" (More of a Mystery than Alternate History), and I thought 'Where would the Jews go if Israel failed?

I'm pretty sure this topic has been touched upon, but I haven't seen one post about it so far.

My Friend offline proposed they'd go to Either the United States or Ethiopia, as they have signifigant Jewish Populations (Beta Israel).
IN the Novel, they are given their own sovereign nation in the then Alaskan Territory.

Where do you think displaced Jews would go?

I do recall reading of a Libyan Jewish homeland in FWoAN{'For Want of a Nail'}
 
It has been a long while since I saw the source for this but I remember reading somewhere that the then British colony of Newfoundland was even suggested.
 

Leo Caesius

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well lots of hardcore Zionists wouldn't leave if they weren't forced, Ethiopia is unlikely for a number of reasons not the lest of which is the Beta Israel weren't "confirmed" as Jews by the rest of Jewry till the 1970s (even then they had to undergo modified conversion ceremonies)
The latest tests, conducted by people like Tudor Parfitt and his circle, suggest that they weren't Jews to begin with.

But I really doubt that most Jewry would want to go to a poverty-stricken famished and unstable country in the Horn of Africa where they would be a small minority in a sea of people with a history of anti-Semitism. Just guessing here. America's the destination where most Jewish emigrees ended up, and I don't see that changing.
 
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