LEADER 04337cam a2200445Ia 4500001 154028 005 20240621211952.0 008 091207s2009 gw b 001 0 eng d 020 9783631593066 020 3631593066 035 (OCoLC)ocn436622047 035 154028 049 LHMA 041 0 eng |hrus |hyid 040 BTCTA |beng |erda |cBTCTA |dOHX |dGWC |dVXJ |dLHM 090 DS113.8.A84 |bM59x 2009 090 DS113.8.A84 |bM59 2009 245 00 Mizrekh : |bJewish studies in the Far East = Mizrekh : Iudaika na Dal'nem Vostoke = Mizreḥ : Yidishe limudim oyf dem Ṿayṭn Mizreḥ / |c[edited by] Ber Boris Kotlerman. 246 30 Jewish studies in the Far East 246 31 Iudaika na Dal'nem Vostoke 246 31 |6880-01Mizreḥ : |bYidishe limudim oyf dem Ṿayṭn Mizreḥ 246 31 |6880-02Yidishe limudim oyf dem Ṿayṭn Mizreḥ 264 1 Frankfurt am Main : |bPeter Lang, |c2009. 300 282 pages ; |c22 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 520 "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"--Cover p. [4]. 505 2 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). 546 In English, Russian, and Yiddish. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Jews |zEast Asia |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Jews |zRussia |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Jews |zEast Asia |xIdentity |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Jews |zRussia |xIdentity |xHistory |y20th century. 700 1 Kotlerman, Ber Boris, |d1971- |eeditor. 880 31 |6246-01/rמזרח : |bיידישע לימודים אויף דעם ווייטן מיזרח 880 31 |6246-02/rיידישע לימודים אויף דעם ווייטן מיזרח 852 0 |bstacks |hDS113.8.A84 |iM59 2009