Language:
English
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Communities in Modern Asia
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2023) 227-250
Keywords:
Jews History
;
Jews Social life and customs
;
Antisemitism
;
Harbin (China)
Abstract:
This chapter on Harbin deals with the first city Jews settled in substantial numbers in modern China. Mostly émigrés from Russia, these Jews prospered during the first decades of the twentieth century as Harbin became a main hub for the Trans-Siberian Railway. At its peak, the Jewish community produced as many as twenty newspapers, but with the Japanese occupation of the city in 1932 and even more during the Chinese Civil War, the prosperity ended and the majority of its members left.
DOI:
10.1017/9781009162609.014
URL:
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