Author: DICKER, HERMAN
Title: Wanderers and Settlers in the Far East - a Century of Jewish Life in China and Japan
Description: New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. "Author was the last of a procession of uniformed rabbinical U.S. Army chaplains to serve in Japan. He came to wonder how the hundred or so Jewish families in the Tokyo area came to live in this remote corner of the world, and was intrigued by their backgrounds in Manchuria and China before they reached Japan Here, he tells the story of how the Jews in the Far East survivied WWII not only as human beings under duress, but as aware, proud Jews." - paraphrased from Introduction. 207 pages. Map. Bibliography. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Map endpapers. Clean, tight and unmarked with light wear to original green cloth. No dust jacket. A sound example of this fascinating study.; 8vo. Very Good with no dust jacket .

Keywords: Religion Asia Judaica