The Conversation U.S.20th-century history would have been a lot different if 200 years ago, a Jewish state had flourished in upstate New York.
In 1825, Mordecai Manuel Noah started to establish Ararat there – a Jewish city-state which he imagined as a refuge for persecuted Jews.
He failed miserably https://theconversation.com/almost-zion-remembering-a-short-lived-jewish-state-in-new-york-253534
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