Physical Description
282 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
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).
Other Authors/Editors
Kotlerman, Ber Boris, 1971-
ISBN
9783631593066
3631593066
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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).
In English, Russian, and Yiddish.
