Mizrekh : Jewish studies in the Far East = Mizrekh : Iudaika na Dal'nem Vostoke = Mizreḥ : Yidishe limudim oyf dem Ṿayṭn Mizreḥ / [edited by] Ber Boris Kotlerman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kotlerman, Ber Boris, 1971- editor.

Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--East Asia--History--20th century.

Jews.

Jews--Russia--History--20th century.

Jews--East Asia--Identity--History--20th century.

Jews--Russia--Identity--History--20th century.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

History.

Russia.

East Asia.

Physical Description:

volumes ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Jewish studies in the Far East

Iudaika na Dal'nem Vostoke

Mizreḥ : Yidishe limudim oyf dem Ṿayṭn Mizreḥ

Yidishe limudim oyf dem Ṿayṭn Mizreḥ

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2009-

Language Note:

Articles in English, Russian, or Yiddish; table of contents and introduction in English, Russian, and Yiddish.

Summary:

"This collection of academic articles in three languages, English, Russian, and Yiddish, covers in a comprehensive manner the history and culture of the Jewish societies in the Far East, geographically close, yet existing in very different political systems. The collection also analyses the mechanisms they developed for self-preservation, as well as the 'Jewish question' in the Far-Eastern perspective, which, during the twentieth century, linked together the history of Russia, China, Japan, Poland, Germany, and other countries"--Cover p. [4].

Contents:

V. 1. English part: Some theoretical approaches for comparing Jewish life in Singapore, Manila, and Harbin / Jonathan Goldstein

Birobidzhan project from the Japanese perspective / Chizuko Takao

Jews of Harbin: nostalgia versus historical reality / Dan Ben-Canaan. Russian part: NKVD as an agent of Jewish emigration to Birobidzhan before the Soviet-German war (1937-1940) / Yuri Pikalov

"Maybe it will be 'hakhshara' for Palestine?": Jewish colonization in the USSR in the context of interparty polemics in the Harbin Jewish community / Michael Zuzula

City that was never built: the Swiss architect Hannes Meyer and his project for a "Jewish socialist city in the Lesser Khingan foothills" / Iosif Brener. Yiddish part: From Tshernowitz to Kiev and Birobidzhan: Yiddish language conferences between 1908 and 1937 / Holger Nath

Trading places: Buzi Miller and internationalization of Jewish "bourgeois nationalism" / Ber Boris Kotlerman. Documents, memoirs, testimonies: The visit to Khabarovsk and Birobidzhan of Israeli ambassador to Moscow Yosef Avidar and his wife, Yemima Tchernovitz (1956): excerpt from Yemima's diary / introduced and annotated by Yaacov Roʹi (English)

Yosef Trumpeldor in Japanese captivity (1905): an appeal to the Russian Emperor Nicolas II / introduced and annotated by Ber Boris Kotlerman (Russian)

From Lithuania to Japan via the Trans-Siberian railway: Meyer Zucker's memoirs from 1940 / introduced and annotated by Sheva Zucker (English). Reviews: Bibliography of Japanese publications on Jews and Israel, 1989-2004 / Masanori Miyazawa (Hisao Takagi, English)

Bauhaus in Birobidzhan: 80 years of Jewish settlement in the Far East of the USSR / Ber Boris Kotlerman and Shmuel Yavin (Nati Cantorovich, English)

Hope and the illusion: in search for a Russian Jewish homeland: a remarcable [sic] period in the history of ORT (Alexander Frenkel, Russian)

Yiddish-Japanese dictionary / Kazuo Ueda (Mitsuharu Akao, Yiddish).

V. 2. Religion, philosophy, identity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

ISBN:

9783631593066

3631593066

9783631614181

3631614187

OCLC:

436622047