The Jews of China: Historical and comparative perspectives

The Jews of China: Historical and comparative perspectives
Author: Jonathan Goldstein
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780765601032

An impressive interdisciplinary effort by Chinese, Japanese, Middle Eastern, and Western Sinologists and Judaic Studies specialists, these books scrutinize patterns of migration, acculturation, assimilation, and economic activity of successive waves of Jewish arrivals in China from approximately A.D.1100 to 1949.

Exiles Traveling

Exiles Traveling
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2015-06-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9042028769

This volume presents for the first time a study of the interface between exile and travel within the context of exile from Nazi Germany. The nineteen essays share the overarching aim to compare the tropes of travel and exile as generators of a critical discourse and as central categories within German exile, in particular literature, music and film. The essays are guided by powerful questions: How does travel compare to exile, and how much overlap is there between these two categories? How do exiles travel, as practitioners of displacement? Or rather, to what extent does the concept of travel apply to the exilic predicament? Do the terms “exile” and “travel” still have validity in our postmodern era of cosmopolitanism, ever increasing mobility, the embrace of otherness, and tourism? How does exile literature in which travel is thematized compare to the tradition(s) of travel writing? And how are the critical moments of leavetaking, re-membering home, and return imagined and narrated? The essays feature numerous German and Austrian authors, musicians, and filmmakers and lend fresh insights into German Exile and the field of Exile Studies at large.

Japan, the Jews, and Israel

Japan, the Jews, and Israel
Author: Meron Medzini
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2024-09-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 3111239780

Although an ally of Nazi Germany during World War II, Japan adamantly refused to accede to German demands to deal harshly with the some 40,000 Jews living under its control. While there was anti-Semitism in Japan since the early 1920s, there was also philo-Semitism and great admiration for Jewish power, influence and achievements. Japan-Israel relations were very strained and tense from 1952 to the early 1990s due to Japan's dependence on Arab oil. But since 1990 the policy of Japan has changed radically and the country is now a close friend of Israel in East Asia. Meron Medzini compares and contrasts Israeli and Japanese society, foreign policy, and above all economic and technological ties. He analyzes the presence of Jews in Japan since the 1860s and the absence of any Jewish influence, power, and involvement in Japanese arts, media, academia, politics, labor unions, and industry.

Fortress Besieged (New Directions Classic)

Fortress Besieged (New Directions Classic)
Author: Qian Zhongshu
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2004-02-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 081122354X

The greatest Chinese novel of the twentieth century, Fortress Besieged is a classic of world literature, a masterpiece of parodic fiction that plays with Western literary traditions, philosophy, and middle-class Chinese society in the Republican era. Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, our hapless hero Fang Hung-chien (á la Emma Bovary), with no particular goal in life and with a bogus degree from a fake American university in hand, returns home to Shanghai. On the French liner home, he meets two Chinese beauties, Miss Su and Miss Pao. Qian writes, "With Miss Pao it wasn't a matter of heart or soul. She hadn't any change of heart, since she didn't have a heart." In a sort of painful comedy, Fang obtains a teaching post at a newly established university where the effete pseudo-intellectuals he encounters in academia become the butt of Qian's merciless satire. Soon Fang is trapped into a marriage of Nabokovian proportions of distress and absurdity. Recalling Fielding's Tom Jones in its farcical litany of misadventures and Flaubert's "style indirect libre," Fortress Besieged is its own unique feast of delights.

Flight and Rescue

Flight and Rescue
Author: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2001
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

The story of more than 2,000 Polish Jewish refugees who fled across the Soviet Union to Japan, where they awaited entrance visas to the United States and elsewhere.

Best Sellers

Best Sellers
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1983
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

Strange Haven

Strange Haven
Author: Sigmund Tobias
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780252024535

The author, part of the Jewish refugee community in Shanghai, tells of his experiences growing up in the ghetto under Japanese occupation.