YYA > were not about living the good life.
I agree, I also meant various utopias by “new life”. I think our disagreement here is on the facts: you think that socialists were separate from kosher Yidden and the latter became Mizrachi (and later or their children became non-religious Zionists?). I think that there was a large mass of Jews who were moving from kosher to -isms (themselves or children) and it was way better to become Mizrachi than Commie. Hard to tell exactly but the number of those who remained observant were getting so small that you can’t say that this long Mizrachi-to-secular pipeline was decisive here.