WI: Jewish SSR in Crimea?

What if instead of a Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the Far East, the Soviet Union instead created a Jewish SSR in Crimea? Would that prevent the creation of a State of Israel later on?
 
What if instead of a Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the Far East, the Soviet Union instead created a Jewish SSR in Crimea? Would that prevent the creation of a State of Israel later on?

Obviously, no. Except for a few dedicated Communists, Jews outside the Soviet Union had no desire to live in the USSR, whether in Birobidzhan or Crimea. And a substantial Jewish community already existed in Palestine by the 1930's.

Anyway, the earliest a Jewish SSR or ASSR could be set up in Crimea would be after the Tatars were exiled from it during World War II. In fact, this was proposed during the war by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, but rejected by the Soviet government. It may even be that the proposal was the result of provocation: Jewish intellectuals would be encouraged to suggest a Jewish republic in Crimea so that they could later be accused of plotting to separate Crimea from the USSR at the behest of the US imperialists--as indeed they were later accused and shot. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/crimean-affair In any event, the proposal IMO had no chance of being accepted. Kaganovich, the only Jew on the Politburo, scoffed that "only actors and poets" could come up with such a scheme. https://books.google.com/books?id=rV_9AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT33
 
Obviously, no. Except for a few dedicated Communists, Jews outside the Soviet Union had no desire to live in the USSR, whether in Birobidzhan or Crimea. And a substantial Jewish community already existed in Palestine by the 1930's.

Anyway, the earliest a Jewish SSR or ASSR could be set up in Crimea would be after the Tatars were exiled from it during World War II. In fact, this was proposed during the war by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, but rejected by the Soviet government. It may even be that the proposal was the result of provocation: Jewish intellectuals would be encouraged to suggest a Jewish republic in Crimea so that they could later be accused of plotting to separate Crimea from the USSR at the behest of the US imperialists--as indeed they were later accused and shot. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/crimean-affair In any event, the proposal IMO had no chance of being accepted. Kaganovich, the only Jew on the Politburo, scoffed that "only actors and poets" could come up with such a scheme. https://books.google.com/books?id=rV_9AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT33
This might be possible with out WW2, but that creates loads of other PODs that could effect Soviet nationalities policy. An autonomous Crimea could end up being a hyphenated Tatar-Jewish ASSR that creates a Nagorno-Karabakh style conflict in the post Soviet era.
 
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