--- Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote: In theory, the Jews could have enjoyed statehood or some form of
political autonomy within Eastern Europe in the areas where they constituted a majority. --
That would have created a situation in which the little majority-Jewish areas, geographically separate from each other, were all separately autonomous, which seems intuitively difficult to manage. Although I suppose the Native Americans do reasonably well in what is as far as I can tell a comparable situation.
--- Birobidzhan was an experiment with this form of self-government within
the USSR.
---
Yep, that's exactly what Birobidzhan was. The idea was to create a territory for the Jewish nation.
This is all tied in with the I think dubious notion that to be a nation you need to have, or should have, a territory (state).
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