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Kosher Chinese : living, teaching, and eating with China's other billion
An irreverent account of the author's experiences as a Jewish-American Peace Corps volunteer serving in rural China describes his observations about the lives of China's interior populations and their complex relationships with local traditions and the rapid changes of modernization.
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Murder in Manchuria
In Murder in Manchuria , Scott D. Seligman explores an
unsolved murder set amid the chaos that reigned in China in the
run-up to World War II. The story unfolds against the backdrop of a
three-country struggle for control of Manchuria-an area some called
China's \"Wild East\"-and an explosive mixture of nationalities,
religions, and ideologies. Semyon Kaspé, a young Jewish musician,
is kidnapped, tortured, and ultimately murdered by disaffected,
antisemitic White Russians, secretly acting on the orders of
Japanese military overlords who covet his father's wealth. When
local authorities deliberately slow-walk the search for the
kidnappers, a young French diplomat takes over and launches his own
investigation. Part cold-case thriller and part social history, the
true, tragic saga of Kaspé is told in the context of the larger,
improbable story of the lives of the twenty thousand Jews who
called Harbin home at the beginning of the twentieth century. Scott
D. Seligman recounts the events that led to their arrival and their
hasty exodus-and solves a crime that has puzzled historians for
decades.
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“Jewish Political Circles Denounce Every Kind of Terror?” Jewish Media Response to Kristallnacht in Japanese-Controlled Harbin
This article explores published Jewish responses to Kristallnacht as they appeared in the city of Harbin, which was controlled by Japan via the puppet entity “Manchukuo” during late 1938 and early 1939. The comments were carried mainly in the community’s weekly Evreiskaya Zhyzn’(Jewish Life) and, to a lesser extent, in Ha-Degel’(The Flag) published by the city’s Revisionist Zionists, both in Russian. The Japanese military in the Kwantung Army that ruled Manchukuo were presumably the main audience for the messages conveyed by the Harbin Jewish newspapers. Japanese perceptions of Jews reflected a growing anxiety about Soviet Russia, international communism, and their alleged links with Jews. In Harbin, these sentiments were energetically fueled by the anti-Bolshevik Russian community. More threatening, by mid-1938 the Nazi-Japanese alliance was burgeoning. This considerably raised the stakes for the Harbin Jews, who feared that the Japanese might adopt elements of Nazi antisemitic policies. Operating at a turbulent period in a volatile region, the Jewish newspapers had to self-censor their messages and carefully navigate their coverage of Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass). Even so, some themes could not be avoided, most specifically Jewish resentment over the event. But the main target of this outrage, Nazi Germany, could not be called out by name. Another major issue was addressing Nazi accusations against the Jews raised in connection with Kristallnacht, even though these were not officially articulated by the Japanese. Particularly risky for the Harbin Jews was the question of how to come to terms with the alleged Jewish propensity for terror.
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Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish Refugees from Central Europe
The study discusses the history of the Jewish refugees within the Shanghai setting and its relationship to the two established Jewish communities, the Sephardi and Russian Jews. Attention is also focused on the cultural life of the refugees who used both German and Yiddish, and on their attempts to cope under Japanese occupation after the outbreak of the Pacific War.
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The Haggadah of the Kaifeng Jews of China
This comprehensive textual treatment of the Kaifeng Passover Rite is a significant contribution to the ongoing discussion as to the Community's origins in particular and to comparative Jewish liturgy in general.
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The Image of Jews in Contemporary China
Bookstores in Chinese cities are stocked with dozens of Chinese-language books on how Jews conduct business, manage the world, and raise their children. At least ten universities throughout China offer popular Jewish Studies programs, some with advanced degrees. Yet there are virtually no Jews in China. The Chinese are constructing an identity for a people that the large majority of them will never meet. This edited volume critically examines the image of Jews from the contemporary perspective of ordinary Chinese citizens. It includes chapters on Chinese Jewish Studies programs, popular Chinese books and blogs about Jews, China’s relations with Israel, and innovative examinations of the ancient Jewish community of Kaifeng.
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From Orientals to Imagined Britons: Baghdadi Jews in Shanghai
Studies and reminiscences, which dissect the communities of the Baghdadi trade diaspora, have so far tended to over-emphasize the smooth Anglicization process experienced by Baghdadi Jews in British India, Singapore and China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The myth of the Sassoons as the ‘Rothschilds of the East’ has, in particular, distorted and enhanced the representation of Baghdadi Jews as wealthy, Anglicized and thoroughly integrated in British social circles. In reality, if we want to unravel the multi-layered history of Baghdadi Jews from India to Japan we must not only analyse in depth the complexities of the westernization process of the Baghdadi upper classes but also reconstruct carefully class divisions within Baghdadi communities. With this aim in mind, this essay will investigate the various strands of identity developed by Baghdadis during their stay in Shanghai and will especially focus on the local allegiances forged between Baghdadi and British settlers, the so-called Shanghailanders. The following pages will, at the same time, delineate the social structure of the Baghdadi community in Shanghai and will indicate that westernized affluent Baghdadis were forced to confront painfully their own ‘other’: destitute vagrant co-religionists who hailed from the Middle East and India and roamed between the various nodes of the Baghdadi diaspora. The period considered in this essay stretches from 1845, the year the first Baghdadi trader set foot in the city, to the middle of the 1930s when large numbers of Jewish refugees from Europe started to flock to Shanghai in search of a safe haven.
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