Jewish Identities in East and Southeast Asia

Jewish Identities in East and Southeast Asia

EnglishHardback
Goldstein Jonathan
De Gruyter
EAN: 9783110350692
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The Jewish communities of East and Southeast Asia display an impressive diversity. Jonathan Goldstein’s book covers the period from 1750 and focuses on seven of the area’s largest cities and trading emporia: Singapore, Manila, Taipei, Harbin, Shanghai, Rangoon, and Surabaya. The book isolates five factors which contributed to the formation of transnational, multiethnic, and multicultural identity: memory, colonialism, regional nationalism, socialism, and Zionism. It emphasizes those factors which preserved specifically Judaic aspects of identity.
Drawing extensively on interviews conducted in all seven cities as well as governmental, institutional, commercial, and personal archives, censuses, and cemetery data, the book provides overviews of communal life and intimate portraits of leading individuals and families. Jews were engaged in everything from business and finance to revolutionary activity. Some collaborated with the Japanese while others confronted them on the battlefield. The book attempts to treat fully and fairly the wide spectrum of Jewish experience ranging from that of the ultra-Orthodox to the completely secular.

EAN 9783110350692
ISBN 3110350696
Binding Hardback
Publisher De Gruyter
Publication date October 29, 2015
Pages 255
Language English
Dimensions 230 x 155
Country Germany
Readership Professional & Scholarly
Authors Goldstein Jonathan
Series New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History