Shanghai – First Sephardim, Then Russian Jews Arrive. Building the Shul. Mir Yeshiva Moves from Japan to Shanghai. Ships to Canada and Deadly Date Line Problem. R' Meir Ashkenazi. Economic Conditions. Rickshaws. Bodies on Street. Book Publishing. - May 19, 2025 - Amshinover tells Japanese: We are both Asian. Chassidic Rebbis understand people better than Litvish Rabbis. Two boats to Canada from Japan: People died because of the Date Line. Prof. Rotem Kowner. German who helped Sempo Sugihara. How Jacob Schiff influenced Japanese attitude toward Jews. The dream that caused the Shanghai shul to be built. The photograph of Mir Yeshiva students in the shul. Who is missing? The 3 I can identify and their impact on my life. R. Shmuel Belkin's kollel. BTA. Talmudical Academy. RIETS class of 1960. Kranzler family. Ponevezher Rav will not run for the Knesset. Japanese, Nazis, and Jews by David Kranzler. Sephardim in Shanghai of early 1900s. Pogroms motivate Russian Jews to move to Shanghai. R' Meir Ashkenazi, Chief Rabbi of Shanghai. Economic conditions of the Jews. The heat. Forced move to the ghetto and the resulting difficulties. The issue of using rickshaws there and in Atlantic City. Camping on the beach in Eilat. Life in Kobe very good, Shanghai poorer, ghetto terrible. Bodies on the street. Visit of the 3 rabbis to U.S. Publishing Torah books in Shanghai. The celebration of this. Yiddish publishing. How the Jews felt about living in Shanghai.
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