Re: Future of Yiddish Eastern Europe in no-WWII world

akup@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Aaron Kuperman) wrote:


>If there is no WWII (or at least, no holocaust), the large
>Yiddish-speaking populations in Eastern Europe, outside of the USSR,
>survive intact. Absent a coercive policy of linguistic assimilation (as
>per the USSR), the younger generations of the orthodox will stay
>yiddish-speaking.

Mostly, but I would expect a large pro****tion
(25% to 50%) to secularize or assimilate to some
degree.

There is an Orthodox community in New York -
"Syrian Jews" - who resist assimilation by
having an absolute ban on intermarriage,
even with other Jews.

Barring such drastic measures, I would expect
some mixing.

At the same time, I note, that population
would survive in substantial numbers, unlike
OTL where it was obliterated (killed, with
the survivors migrating to the U.S. or Israel).

This changes the center of gravity of the
"judaeosphere".
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