WI a Jewish Soviet Socialist Republic

I'm reading A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes at the moment, which is about the Russian Revolution, and I came across this:

The Jewish Bund was Russia's first mass-based Marxist party. Established in 1897, it had 35,000 members by 1905. It declared the Jews to be a 'nation' and demanded full national autonomy for them, with Yiddish as the official language, within a Russian federation. Such demands were rejected by the Russian Marxists (including Iulii Markov and Leon Trotsky, who were themselves Jews), who put class interests above nationalist ones, and who, in any case, were deeply hostile to the Jewish nationalism of the Bundists (Georgii Plekhanov accused them of being Zionists who were afraid of sea-sickness). The result was that the two Marxist movements went their separate ways.

Is there any plausible way in which a Jewish Soviet Socialist Republic could have been established? Where would it be? What would it be called? And what would be the effect on subsequent history?
 

Thande

Donor
They did set up a Jewish Autonomous Region in OTL, just above China, as a Soviet counterpart to Israel. It never took off, though.
 
Before Birobidzhan was made the "Jewish Autonomous Oblast", the Soviet government had considered making the Crimea the J.A.O. Something about all this space left by the now departed, or deported, Crimean Tatars. Then Stalin changed his mind.

Later on, a number of prominent Soviet Jewish intellectuals were tried and executed. In that order, too. One of the charges was -- proposing that the Crimea be made a Soviet Jewish homeland.
 

Keenir

Banned
I'm reading A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes at the moment, which is about the Russian Revolution, and I came across this:



Is there any plausible way in which a Jewish Soviet Socialist Republic could have been established? Where would it be? What would it be called? And what would be the effect on subsequent history?

maybe, if either Russia got complete or partial control of Japan at the end of WW2, they could make all or part of their area of Japan into a JSSR, utilizing those Jews who the Japanese rescued from German death camps.
 
maybe, if either Russia got complete or partial control of Japan at the end of WW2, they could make all or part of their area of Japan into a JSSR, utilizing those Jews who the Japanese rescued from German death camps.

That sounds like a plan for unmitigated disaster, and making Japan Jewish majority would require ethnic cleansing on a scale that would make the previous Soviet deportations look like a joke.
 

Keenir

Banned
That sounds like a plan for unmitigated disaster, and making Japan Jewish majority would require ethnic cleansing on a scale that would make the previous Soviet deportations look like a joke.

um, who said anything about it being a Jewish majority?:confused:
the Jews would be the administrators, and all Soviet documents would refer to the area as the Jewish SSR....thus complying with the initial post.
 
um, who said anything about it being a Jewish majority?:confused:
the Jews would be the administrators, and all Soviet documents would refer to the area as the Jewish SSR....thus complying with the initial post.

That Jewish community was far too scattered and far too small. Surely, this Republic (presumably in Hokkaido?) would use as its language a Cyrillicized variant of Yiddish?
 
Hokkaido would be more than enough - there were two or three million Jews in the Soviet Union left after the war. Add a few hundred thousand from the satellites, maybe.
 
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