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Pepper, Silk and Ivory: Amazing Stories about Jews and the Far East

Autor Marvin Tokayer, Ellen Rodman Editat de Balazs Trencsenyi
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 aug 2014
There is a missing page in Jewish history. We tend to assume that Jewish history is to be found in the Middle East, Europe, North Africa, and the Americas but not in the Far East. Pepper, Silk & Ivory has discovered that missing page, revealing the amazing stories of Jews who both benefitted from and contributed to the Far East."
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ISBN-13: 9789652296474
ISBN-10: 9652296473
Pagini: 332
Dimensiuni: 178 x 241 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.84 kg
Editura: GEFEN BOOKS

Notă biografică

Rabbi Marvin Tokayer began his rabbinic career in 1962 as a U.S. Air Force chaplain stationed in southern Japan. In 1968, he returned to serve as rabbi of the one-thousand-member Jewish Community of Japan, a post he held until 1976; he remains Lifetime Honorary Rabbi of the community. He also served on the Federation of Jewish Communities of Southeast Asia and the Far East and as Founding Board Member of the Sino-Judaic Institute. Consummate storyteller Rabbi Tokayer contributed seven articles on rabbinics and the Orient for the Encyclopedia Judaica; authored twenty books in Japanese on Judaica and Japan; and coauthored (with Mary Swartz) The Fugu Plan The Untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews during World War II. Ellen Rodman, PhD is a writer, producer, and the president of LN Productions LLC, a production and media consulting company based in New York. Prior to founding her own company, Dr. Rodman served as an executive at NBC, where she launched the first missing childrens campaign in connection with the broadcast of the made-for-television movie Adam, and at Group W where she accepted a DuPont Columbia Award for Whispering Hope, the companys outreach program on Alzheimers disease. The former family entertainment reviewer for The New York Times, Dr. Rodman is also the author of numerous magazine and newspaper articles on subjects ranging from education and health to animals and culture.