Tombstone Histories Tales Of Jewish Life In Harbin

Author : Dan Ben-Canaan
Publisher : Earnshaw Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9888769731

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Tombstone Histories: Tales of Jewish Life in Harbin by Dan Ben-Canaan Pdf

Tombstone Histories is a venture into the strange past of a great Chinese city. Harbin, established in northeastern China in 1898 by Russians and others, was for a time home to some 38 different national communities, before war and revolution destroyed their lives. Harbin also became a safe house and waystation for Jews escaping pogroms and hatred in Europe, and Tombstone Histories presents the Jewish experience in the city in a personal and unforgettable way. It paints a revealing picture, never shown before, of Jewish daily life in this faraway and alien land, of how people functioned, struggled and sometimes thrived in a space that was so different and unfamiliar. Tombstone Histories offers glimpses of the lives of the rich, the poor and those in between with daily stories and reminiscences of close to sixty families. History so often ends up as just a series of tombstones, but this book provides the other side to the story-the personal details of lives which allow readers to draw their own conclusions about the human experience, especially survival.

Author : Theodore Kaufman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:608121259

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The Jews of Harbin Live on My Heart /. by Theodore Kaufman Pdf

Author : Theodore Kaufman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Harbin (China)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122922359

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The Jews of Harbin Live on in My Heart by Theodore Kaufman Pdf

Author : Dan Ben-Canaan
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9781666916911

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Echoes of Harbin by Dan Ben-Canaan Pdf

"This book examines and reflects on the Jewish community of Harbin, a Chinese city that was established by Russians in 1898"--

Author : Scott D. Seligman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640126039

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Murder in Manchuria by Scott D. Seligman Pdf

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.

Author : Berl Falbaum
Publisher : Momentum Books LLC
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015068798662

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Shanghai Remembered by Berl Falbaum Pdf

In the 1930s, anti-Semitism was spreading like a cancer throughout the world. And even though Hitler's regime was criticized for its treatment of Jews, no one stepped forward to help them. In mid-1938, 32 countries met to discuss the Jews' dilemma. But they did not open their doors (except the Dominican Republic), citing a variety of reasons. Through words of mouth or information from travel agencies, Jews from various parts of Europe discovered that Shanghai was an open port. No visas or passports were required. About 20,000 refugees made the decision to flee from impending extermination--leaving behind their highly civilized and sophisticated culture for a haven that could not have been more unlike the life they had experienced. Shanghai Remembered... is a collection of first-person accounts telling how these refugees found themselves traumatized, stateless and penniless in a strange and inhospitable place.

Author : Gotelind Müller
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643914224

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Tombs and Transnational History in Greater China by Gotelind Müller Pdf

This collection of case studies is concerned with tombs that testify to transnational history. Special attention is given to tombs of Westerners and Russians still extant in Greater China, but also to those of some noted Chinese who were involved in transnational history during the 20th century. Tombs have a special potential to cast familiar things in a new light. They also provide the possibility to counter-check received narratives which might have been tailored along certain vested interests and circulated with specific target groups in mind.

Author : Rotem Kowner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009162586

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Jewish Communities in Modern Asia by Rotem Kowner Pdf

A pioneering exploration of the Jewish communities across the Asian continent and their dramatic rise and fall in modern times

Author : Diane Tobin,Gary A. Tobin,Scott Rubin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015066741326

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In Every Tongue by Diane Tobin,Gary A. Tobin,Scott Rubin Pdf

Explores the origins, traditions, challenges, and joy of diverse Jews in America.

Author : William David Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521219299

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The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age by William David Davies Pdf

Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN : MINN:31951000713232M

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Antiquarian Bookman by Anonim Pdf

Author : Guang Pan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811394836

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A Study of Jewish Refugees in China (1933–1945) by Guang Pan Pdf

This book comprehensively discusses the topic of Jews fleeing the Holocaust to China. It is divided into three parts: historical facts; theories; and the Chinese model. The first part addresses the formation, development and end of the Jewish refugee community in China, offering a systematic review of the history of Jewish Diaspora, including historical and recent events bringing European Jews to China; Jewish refugees arriving in China: route, time, number and settlement; the Jewish refugee community in Shanghai; Jewish refugees in other Chinese cities; the "Final Solution" for Jewish refugees in Shanghai and the “Designated Area for Stateless Refugees”; friendship between the Jewish refugees and the local Chinese people; the departure of Jews and the end of the Jewish refugee community in China. The second part provides deeper perspectives on the Jewish refugees in China and the relationship between Jews and the Chinese. The third part explores the Chinese model in the history of Jewish Diaspora, focusing on the Jews fleeing the Holocaust to China and compares the Jewish refugees in China with those in other parts of the world. It also introduces the Chinese model concept and presents the five features of the model.

Author : Thomas William Dunk
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Employment (Economic theory)
ISBN : 0773524835

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It's a Working Man's Town by Thomas William Dunk Pdf

In a valuable addition to the debate on the nature of contemporary working-class culture, Thomas Dunk shows that the function and meaning of gender, ethnicity, popular leisure activities, and common-sense knowledge are intimately linked with the way an individual's experience is structured by class. After reviewing the principal theoretical problems relating to the study of working-class culture and consciousness, Dunk provides a detailed ethnographic analysis of "the Boys" – the male working-class subjects of this study. Male working-class culture, he argues, contains both the seeds of a radical response to social inequality and a defensive reaction against alternative social practices and ideas. In a new forward, Dunk contextualizes the original text with regard to the debates about class and masculinity that have occurred since the book was first published.

Author : Cyrus Adler,Isidore Singer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Jews
ISBN : UOM:49015002282318

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The Jewish Encyclopedia by Cyrus Adler,Isidore Singer Pdf

Author : Thant Myint-U
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571277780

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Where China Meets India by Thant Myint-U Pdf

China and India have always been seperated not only by the Himalayas, but also by the impenetrable jungle and remote areas that once stretched across Burma. Now this last great frontier will likely vanish - forests cut down, dirt roads replaced by superhighways, insurgencies ended - leaving China and India exposed to each other as never before. This basic shift in geography is as profound as the opening of the Suez Canal and is taking place just as the centre of the world's economy moves to the East. Thant Myint-U has travelled extensively across this vast territory, where high-speed trains and gleaming shopping malls now sit alongside the last remaining forests and impoverished mountain communities. In Where China Meets India he explores the new strategic centrality of Burma, the country of his ancestry, where Asia's two rising giant powers - China and India - appear to be vying for supremacy. Part travelogue, part history, part investigation, Where China Meets India takes us across the fast-changing Asian frontier, giving us a masterful account of the region's long and rich history and its sudden significance for the rest of the world. Thant Myint-U is the author of The River of Lost Footsteps and has written articles for the New York Times, the Washington Post and the New Statesman. He has worked alongside Kofi Annan at the UN's Department of Political Affairs and currently works as a special consultant to the Burmese government.