Jonathan Goldstein - Jewish Identities in East and Southeast Asia: Singapore, Manila, Taipei, Harbin, Shanghai, Rangoon, and Surabaya

Edited by Cornelia Wilhelm

Volume 6

ISBN 978-3-11-035069-2
e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-035150-7
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ISSN 2192-9645

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I dedicate this book to Taiwans Jewish community and to my colleagues
at Academia Sinica (), who provided generous hospitality and
unrivalled scholarly resources during my 2013 sabbatical in Taipei.

For research assistance, the author would like to thank Rabbi Mordechai Abergel, Frank Benjamin, Felice Isaacs, Jean Gray Marshall, Saul Mashaal, and Victor Sassoon, all of Singapore; Rabbi Eliyahu Azaria and Jewish community administrators John Kater and Lee Blumenthal, all of Manila; Rabbi Shlomo Tabib, Prof. Thomas Benda of National Yang Ming University, Representative Simona Halperin, Donald H. Shapiro, and Anna Shen, all of Taipei; Rabbi Ezekiel Musleah of Philadelphia, formerly of Calcutta; Rabbi Marvin Tokayer, Great Neck, New York; Former Israeli Prime Minister and Mayor of Jerusalem Ehud Olmert and his brothers Amram and Yosef; Baroness Ruth Deech, Robert Chard, Catherine Hartley, Jonathan Katz, Anne Mullen, Derek Penslar, David Smith, and Sally Speirs, of St. Annes College, Rana Mitter of St. Cross College, Trevor M. Langrish of the Bodleian Chinese Studies Library, and Todd Endelman of the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, all of Oxford University; Prof. Arthur S. Abramson, Emeritus of the University of Connecticut, Charles Berlin, Lee M. Friedman Bibliographer in Judaica & Head, Judaica Division, Harvard College Library; Chiang Su-ling, secretary of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei; Prof. Dan Ben- Canaan, Heilongjiang University, Harbin; the late Prof. Peter (Zaika) Berton, emeritus of the University of Southern California; the late Prof. Boris Bressler, emeritus of the University of California at Berkeley and archivist of the Igud Yotzei Sin , Tel Aviv; Bernardita Churchill, University of the Philippines (ret.) and President, Philippine National Historical Society; Malcolm Churchill, U.S. Department of State (ret.); Prof. Jacob Citrin, University of California at Berkeley; Prof. Parkes Coble, University of Nebraska; Ferdinand Pantas Flores, Third Secretary and Vice Consul, Philippine Embassy, Tel Aviv; University System of Georgia colleagues Prof. John Garver, Rolanda Farmer, Laurence Rose, and Walter Todd; Prof. Tom Grunfeld, Empire State College, New York City; the late Leonfried (Freddy) Heymann, Israel Railways, Haifa; Librarian Mel Johnson and computer technicians Andrei Strukov and Nate Swan, all of the University of Maine; the late Teddy Kaufman of the Igud Yotzei Sin (Association of Former Jewish Residents of China/Israel-China Friendship Association), Tel Aviv; Isi J. Leibler, Jerusalem, formerly of Melbourne, Australia; Prof. Steven I. Levine, University of Montana; Dennis A. Leventhal of Chestertown, Maryland, formerly of Hong Kong; Yana (also Yaacov, Yaacov, and Jack) Liberman, San Diego, Calif., formerly of Harbin, Pyongyang, Shanghai, Israel, Tokyo, and Taipei; Dr. Raymond Lum, emeritus of the Harvard-Yenching Institute Library; Prof. Maruyama Naoki, emeritus of Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo; Prof. Irene Eber (emerita) and Dr. Meron Medzini of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Prof. Henrietta Mondry of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Teddy Piatsunovitch, member of the Presidium of the Igud Yotzei Sin , Tel Aviv; Prof. Murray (Moshe) Rosman, of Bar Ian University, Ramat Gan, Israel; Prof. Suzanne Rutland of the University of Sydney, Australia; Isaac Shapiro, Of Counsel to the New York City law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Prof. Yitzhak Shichor of Haifa University and of the Truman Insititute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Amira Stern of the Jabotinsky Institute, Tel Aviv; Prof. Jean Gelman Taylor, emerita of the University of New South Wales; Prof. Rivka Ulmer of Bucknell University; R. Stevenson Upton of Concord, New Hampshire; Prof. Gerhard Weinberg, emeritus of the University of North Carolina; Max Weissler of Hod Hasharon, Israel, formerly of Berlin and Manila; Katharina Wenzel-Teuber and Fr. Zbigniew Wesolowski of the China-Zentrum e.V. and the Monumenta Serica Institute, both in Sankt Augustin, Germany; and Ambassador Moshe Yegar, emeritus of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of the Truman Institute, Jerusalem. Final responsibility is, of course, the authors alone.

Jonathan Goldstein
Taipei
March 20, 2013