"Ten Jewish Homelands Outside Palestine"

Herzl was pretty open to the Uganda Plan, though. He could have led a fair number to Africa.

He also said it was supposed to be a temporary measure, saying so in the Sixth Congress. Plus the Seventh Congress rejected it after two of the three-man team they sent to investigate Uganda rejected it.
 
He also said it was supposed to be a temporary measure, saying so in the Sixth Congress. Plus the Seventh Congress rejected it after two of the three-man team they sent to investigate Uganda rejected it.
True. If you had maybe a worse and earlier Russo-Japanese War, it could happen. That's a stretch, I know.

Still, it's the most likely on the list, I think.
 

Brunaburh

Gone Fishin'
The reference to the western Murray Basin is the first I've heard of it and can be discounted; immigration to Australia south of the Tropic of Capricorn was subject to the White Australia Policy from 1901 onwards until 1966.

The reference to a proposed settlement of the East Kimberly region south of Wyndham I am familiar with; it was supported by, amongst others, Sir Isaac Isaacs. The region is extraordinarily rich in natural resources as well as being an agricultural breadbasket and, being in the tropics, was not restricted by the White Australia Policy. Any settlement there would be guaranteed to boom. But settlement there was intended to be as part of the Australian body politic, not independent of it.

Ashkenazi Jews, and some Sephardi were ok under White Australia, no restrictions. In fact one of them was probably the empire's best WWI general.
 
Of course, I suppose that it is how it is in the West in general. Yes, Australia has low anti-Semitism
 
True. If you had maybe a worse and earlier Russo-Japanese War, it could happen. That's a stretch, I know.

Still, it's the most likely on the list, I think.

I think it might be a stretch too far, unless Stalin can be convinced instead of purging Soviet Jews (assuming he survives 1953 and goes through with the Doctor's Plot) to instead exile them to Birobidzhan/JAO and make that the "Soviet Israel".

But I agree, it's still on the list as potentially likely
 
I think it might be a stretch too far, unless Stalin can be convinced instead of purging Soviet Jews (assuming he survives 1953 and goes through with the Doctor's Plot) to instead exile them to Birobidzhan/JAO and make that the "Soviet Israel".

But I agree, it's still on the list as potentially likely

But yet, it's the most plausible of them all save for perhaps Kenya/Uganda.
 

Cook

Banned
Ashkenazi Jews, and some Sephardi were ok under White Australia, no restrictions. In fact one of them was probably the empire's best WWI general.

Monash's parents migrated from Germany to the colony of Victoria in the 1850s, before there was a Commonwealth of Australia or immigration restrictions of any form, let alone the WAP. The White Australia Policy heavily restricted immigration from anywhere other than the British Isles, including European countries. For a clear idea of how the White Australia Policy restricted Jewish immigration, you have to look at the years when it existed, and critically, those years when the most Jews were seeking to emigrate from Europe; in July 1938, at the Evian Conference, organised to find destinations for the Jews desperate to escape Austria, Germany and Poland, the Australian delegates' statement was that "we have no real racial problem and we are not desirous of importing one." Australia accepted no Jewish refugees following the conference.
 
If Stalin had been less anti-semitic and had supported a pogrom-free Jewish region (in the Crimea or some other industrialized area, not Siberia), and if scientists like Fermi and Szilard flee there instead of West, perhaps Stalin gets the atom bomb first.

I actually don't think Stalin's antisemitism was actually the problem, the cultural attitudes of the Soviet Union on the other hand would have never tolerated the creation of a Jewish homeland on such valuable real-estate. Had Stalin or any other leader attempted to push through such a policy they'd be facing full fledged revolt. I would also go further and argue that Stalin's post-WWII antisemitic behaviour was more a result of trying to win over a population disgruntled with the post-war status quo after his plan to bring Jewish nationalists into the Soviet sphere failed to gain traction.

I think it might be a stretch too far, unless Stalin can be convinced instead of purging Soviet Jews (assuming he survives 1953 and goes through with the Doctor's Plot) to instead exile them to Birobidzhan/JAO and make that the "Soviet Israel".

As I mentioned earlier, I think there isn't that big of a dichotomy between those two options. Birobidzhan is in no way shape or form ready to accept the millions of Soviet Jewish Refugees coming it's way in the 1950s and the logistics will make the transfer difficult. The way I see it, Jews will be "evacuated" from the industrial regions of the USSR and sent (some of them for the second time!) to Central Asian camps to await resettlement in the east (gosh...that doesn't sound ominous AT ALL). However, I don't think Stalin's going to make shipping the Jews across Siberia a priority so this process could very well take some time. The conditions in these camps will likely be wretched and take their toll on their inhabitants before they even get on the trains. Then there's the issue of turning the Soviet Jewish community into an agricultural community (attempted numerous times with little to no success) which will also take its toll. The JAO essentially becomes a giant internment camp in this scenario, which can theoretically feed itself and provide mineral exports.

Of course this all goes out the window once Stalin dies. However as I mentioned before I think the damage will have been done and that Jewish re-integration into Soviet society will be extremely difficult to say the least. I do wonder though how many Jews will attempt to flee the USSR by escaping into China after the Sino-Soviet split? I'm also not convinced that the entire Jewish community would leave following the fall of Communism. Wouldn't it be interesting if they declare independence and align with Beijing (China of course being interested in the minerals...) As of 2013 Chinese mining interests were thinking of building a bridge to the region to tap the resources therein.
 
Then the Jews there would have big problems with China, who would hardly tolerate their presence there.
 
What about Manchukuo? The Japanese in there own interest seemed to want Jews in their area of hegemony

Highly unlikely. The Japanese resettled Jews in the Shanghai ghetto and elsewhere, but I don't see them supporting a Jewish state anywhere in their domain. Though it would be interesting for European Jews to interact with Kaifeng Jews.

As I mentioned earlier, I think there isn't that big of a dichotomy between those two options. Birobidzhan is in no way shape or form ready to accept the millions of Soviet Jewish Refugees coming it's way in the 1950s and the logistics will make the transfer difficult. The way I see it, Jews will be "evacuated" from the industrial regions of the USSR and sent (some of them for the second time!) to Central Asian camps to await resettlement in the east (gosh...that doesn't sound ominous AT ALL). However, I don't think Stalin's going to make shipping the Jews across Siberia a priority so this process could very well take some time. The conditions in these camps will likely be wretched and take their toll on their inhabitants before they even get on the trains. Then there's the issue of turning the Soviet Jewish community into an agricultural community (attempted numerous times with little to no success) which will also take its toll. The JAO essentially becomes a giant internment camp in this scenario, which can theoretically feed itself and provide mineral exports.

Of course this all goes out the window once Stalin dies. However as I mentioned before I think the damage will have been done and that Jewish re-integration into Soviet society will be extremely difficult to say the least. I do wonder though how many Jews will attempt to flee the USSR by escaping into China after the Sino-Soviet split? I'm also not convinced that the entire Jewish community would leave following the fall of Communism. Wouldn't it be interesting if they declare independence and align with Beijing (China of course being interested in the minerals...) As of 2013 Chinese mining interests were thinking of building a bridge to the region to tap the resources therein.

I just re-read what you said, and I do agree. It might be a Soviet Israel but there's going to be a lot of dead from the forced deportations (and the idea of "moving them east" is going to make a lot of Jews very nervous). Soviet Israel is going to look a lot like an internment camp and there's going to be a lot of disease, a lot of officials in Moscow who won't care if they live or die, and pretty rampant anti-Semitism.

If there's a Sino-Soviet split, I could easily see Jewish escapees into China
 
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