> --- 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.
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I'm as dubious as you are about what such shtetl-reservations would have
amounted to, especially at that level of economic development. Clearly, so
were the large number of young Jews who flocked to the RSDLP - both its
Menshevik and Bolshevik factions.
Anyway, it seems you, I and Russell are broadly in agreement on this subject.