880-01 Mizrekh : Jewish studies in the Far East / Ber Boris Kotlerman (ed.) = [Mizrekh : Iudaika na Dal'nem Vostoke / Ber Boris Kotlerman (red.) = Mizreḥ : Yidishe limudim af dem Ṿayṭn Mizreḥ / Ber Boris Koṭlerman (red.)]
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)
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"--P. [4] of cover.
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