6 Failed Jewish States Before Israel | Unpacked

I visited the Jewish Autonomous Oblast of Birobidzhan in 2008. It still exists and some Jews still live there. It has a synagogue, a rabbi, a Jewish cultural centre, Jewish schools, signs in Yiddish using Hebrew letters, and various Jewish cultural monuments. It is an interesting place with beautiful scenery. Apart from Israel it is the only other official Jewish jurisdiction in the world. Its problem is its extreme remoteness. It took a 6 days train journey from Moscow to reach. I went there because it was my grandfather's dream to either live there or in Israel. He never managed to do either. I lived up to his dream by moving to and living in Israel for 6 years, and going to visit Birobidzhan when I went to Russia. I lived in Russia for a year.

Ethiopians weren't forced into Judaism, Axum empire was much bigger than any jew state

I guess Argentina was missed. There was a plan to construct a state there. It is well documented at Bochorov's writings.

I'm neutral, but i can i request a video next: Jewish communities that remained in the Land of Israel and never went into the diaspora

Major problems with the story about Uganda. Dangerous animals as a reason not to go there -- this is just silly. Organized people are no match for any animal. It is people who are truly dangerous. Speaking about people, Masai live predominantly in Kenya and Tanzania. There are a few in Uganda, but not many. Surely their resistance was insignificant. So maybe it was some other people. Who knows. The British colonists in Uganda were living very well at the time. Uganda was declined simply because it wasn't historical Jewish land, so the hearts of the people didn't yearn for it.

I saw an algerian documentary showing there was a jewish kingdom in central algeria called Tamentit

There was also the quixotic efforts of the various socialist Bunds to develop autonomy within the areas of the European diaspora where they lived. These efforts, unlike Birobdizhan, at least had the distinction of being Jewish efforts. But none of them succeeded, and after the Shoah Bundism became little more than a poorly remembered ohase in Jewish history.

Being a New Yorker, I grew up around Jewish Communites and worked once for the UJA Federation in NYC. Love good NYC bagels and lox! Some good insights, again I learned something new

The Jewish state in Himyar lasted about 135 years. The kingdom of Simien in Ethiopia existed almost 200 years. The state of Israel is just shy of 76 years old. What makes you so sure it will last longer than it's ancient predecessors? The fact that it's located in the historic home of the nation?! Well so was the Hashmonean kingdom, which lasted only 77 years. I'm pessimistic about the chances of Israel to outlive me, unless I'll also be sloughtered as many of my people.

You didnt mentioned the sefarad in Spain that lead technicallybto a sort of holocoust for us. I guess with Birovidzhan you meant the Oblast, right? Oblast still exist and its still very jew

Wow, I only knew about the Uganda plan, Birobidzhan and Madagascar 🙏

I always thought that a Jewish state in New York would make sense given the high Jewish population there. I'm surprised that there had been one there in the past. This was a very interesting video.

You forgot about the Kingdom of Semien

That ended badly.

It wasn’t Uganda.. it’s present day Kenya in the Rift Valley region

The state of Israel that was once proposed to be established outside the Promised Land failed miserably. 8 proposals to establish the State of Israel in various parts of the world, each as follows: 1820 Virginia, Ararat city (USA) 1903 Uganda “Scheme” (Italian colony at that time) 1940 Guiana (Italian colony at that time) 1928 Russia (Autonomous Oblast/Jewish Autonomous Oblast) 1930 Japan (Fugu Plan) 1938 Madagascar (Madagascar Plan) 1938 Australia (Port Davey) 1936 Ethiopia It was also recorded that The State of Judea – many Israeli settlers in the West Bank are considering declaring independence as the State of Judea if Israel withdraws from the West Bank. In January 1989, several hundred activists met and announced their intention to create such a state if Israel withdrew from the region.

When I spent a year living in Israel in 2022-2023, I met a 93-year-old woman who said: "Eretz Israel doesn't belong to us, we belong to Eretz Israel. This is our people's eternal home." Israel is indeed the only Jewish home we need.

There wasn't even a Babylonia in the first century. It was a part of the Parthian empire.

The Khazar Khaganate is complicated But it didn't fall quickly. The traditional date for the conversion of at least some of their nobility was 740 CE with 860 CE being an alternate date. Either way, they last it is an Empire until 967 CE and the last Khazar polity was destroyed in 1016 CE although it was led by a Christian.

And then there was that Baron’s buying up tracts of land in Argentina that many Jews moved to.