It's been posited before that Stalin creates a Yiddish-speaking Jewish SSR in Kaliningrad (which will be what here, Litvinovgrad? Kamenevgrad?) Presumably few Central European survivors wish to move here even if the alternative is Cypriot DP camps, so lets say that its populated by the bulk of the Soviet Ashkenazi population. Probably they are forcibly moved - IOTL Stalin apparently considered forcibly moving Soviet Jewry to Birobidzhan.
Presume that Israel still wins independence and the fall of Communism is roughly OTL (sometime between 1979 and 1999).
What does Jewish emigration politics in the USA, USSR and Israel look like like ITTL?
How do Israel and the Jewish SSR relate to each other during the Cold War? I presume that they deeply distrust each other and view one another as puppets.
What will the former Jewish SSR be called, post-independence? With both Yiddish and Hebrew as sovereign languages and the centers of independent cultures, what is the cultural impact on Western Jewry? The cultural interchange between the two Jewish states themselves?
IOTL Israel, even in large Jewish communities like the US one, has wide currency as the State of the Jews. After the full of Communism, how do two modern, reasonably democratic Jewish states relate to each other?
How much of the population of the Former Jewish SSR moves to Israel? Remember, they get automatic citizenship in a first world country and relatively generous relocation packages. (To help conceptually, what percentage of Moldovans, say, would have moved to the U.S. in the 1990s if offered such a deal?)
Does the remaining Yiddish state remain a close Russian ally like Belarus, or does it attempt to join the EU with the Baltic states? Remember that the most anti-Soviet Jews will already have departed for Israel and elsewhere.
If the Yiddish state does join the EU with the Baltic states, how does the EU's identity change with the early inclusion of a non-Christian state?
How does Israel change with a major late influx of Yiddish, rather than Russian, speaking Jews?
Presume that Israel still wins independence and the fall of Communism is roughly OTL (sometime between 1979 and 1999).
What does Jewish emigration politics in the USA, USSR and Israel look like like ITTL?
How do Israel and the Jewish SSR relate to each other during the Cold War? I presume that they deeply distrust each other and view one another as puppets.
What will the former Jewish SSR be called, post-independence? With both Yiddish and Hebrew as sovereign languages and the centers of independent cultures, what is the cultural impact on Western Jewry? The cultural interchange between the two Jewish states themselves?
IOTL Israel, even in large Jewish communities like the US one, has wide currency as the State of the Jews. After the full of Communism, how do two modern, reasonably democratic Jewish states relate to each other?
How much of the population of the Former Jewish SSR moves to Israel? Remember, they get automatic citizenship in a first world country and relatively generous relocation packages. (To help conceptually, what percentage of Moldovans, say, would have moved to the U.S. in the 1990s if offered such a deal?)
Does the remaining Yiddish state remain a close Russian ally like Belarus, or does it attempt to join the EU with the Baltic states? Remember that the most anti-Soviet Jews will already have departed for Israel and elsewhere.
If the Yiddish state does join the EU with the Baltic states, how does the EU's identity change with the early inclusion of a non-Christian state?
How does Israel change with a major late influx of Yiddish, rather than Russian, speaking Jews?