Pepper, Silk and Ivory: Amazing Stories about Jews and the Far East
A Literature, Nonfiction, Asian Literature book. Very interesting stories - can be read and then put down as stories are stand-alone and...
Pepper, Silk & Ivory reveals a missing page in Jewish history, the amazing stories of Jews who both benefitted from and contributed to the Far East. Here you will read about the juvenile delinquent who later became known as the "uncrowned Jewish king of China;" the woman who refused to give up until the Japanese Constitution included rights for women and children; the secret behind one of the world's most famous logos; and the American baseball player who spied for the United States in Japan. You will also learn the stories of the Jew who served as Singapore s first chief minister; the eccentric writer who introduced China to the West with her pet gibbon always at her side; the Marrano physician in India whose famous volume on botany and pharmacology in the sixteenth-century caused as much excitement as the discovery of penicillin did in the twentieth-century; the Jewish musicians who enhanced both Eastern music and the quality of life for everyone in Asia; the ashram in India created by the Jewish guru who became known as The Mother; and...
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- Pages: 300 pages
- ISBN: 9789652296474 / 0
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Although I wouldn't have chosen this book for pleasure, I'm glad I did read it because I learned a lot from it. There's a lot of Holocaust-related material in it but also a lot of other Jewish history. Each chapter contains at least one fascinating biographical sketch of a figure in Asian-Jewish history, and often more than one person... Review by Philip K. Jason for the Jewish Book Council. Very interesting stories - can be read and then put down as stories are stand-alone and very good.
