Between Mumbai and Manila

Judaism in Asia since the Founding of the State of Israel (Proceedings of the International Conference, held at the Department of Comparative Religion of the University of Bonn. May 30, to June 1, 2012)

Manfred Hutter

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9783847101581
• eBook ISBN:
  9783847001584
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

The volume offers a diversity of facets of Jewry between Mumbai and Manila. While some of its papers make references to the important factor how politics and religions are often intertwined, other papers are arranged along the lines of "area studies" – from South Asia via Southeast Asia to China and the Far East. Even if these articles at first glance concentrate on "local" minority communities they always take into ac count that the Jewish communities in Asia take part in interactions of religions which can help to foster mutual understanding. The studies presented at the conference refer to an extended approach always bringing Jewish Studies into international links and "crossing borders" – thus opening comparative perspectives to broaden our knowledge of Jewish history. So we have to reconsider aspects of Jewish studies for the future, which would include Asian and religious studies in a qualitative, comparative, and interdisciplinary way and thus can shift away from the Euro-American-centric point of view regarding Jewish Studies.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Manfred Hutter / Ulrich Vollmer: Introductory Notes: The Context of the Conference in the History of Jewish Studies in Bonn
• Body
• Part 1: Jewish Communities in Asia
• Gabriele Shenar: Bene Israel Transnational Spaces and the Aesthetics of Community Identity
• Edith Franke: Searching for Traces of Judaism in Indonesia
• Vera Leininger: Jews in Singapore: Tradition and Transformation
• Manfred Hutter: The Tiny Jewish Communities in Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia
• Alina Pătru: Judaism in the PR China and in Hong Kong Today: Its Presence and Perception
• Suzanne D. Rutland: The Asia-Pacific Region and Australian Jewry
• Part 2: Religion and Politics
• Meron Medzini: Zionist Federations and Zionist Diplomacy in Asia to Ensure United Nations Support for the 1947 Partition Plan
• Jonathan Goldstein / Dean Kotlowski: The Jews of Manila: Manuel Quezon, Paul McNutt, and the Politics and Consequences of Holocaust Rescue
• Malte Gaier: Jews in Pakistan in the Context of Estranged Pakistani-Israeli Relations
• Pingan Liang / Zheng Liang: The Bilateral Relations between Israel and Modern China (1948–2010)
• Theo Kamsma: The Artful Deletion of Israeli / Jewish Presence in the Straits
• Part 3: Judaism in Everyday Life and Society
• Heinz Werner Wessler: “My Backward Place is Where I am”: Jewish Identity and Jewish Authorship in India
• Yudit Kornberg Greenberg: Hindu-Jewish Dialogue: A New Tradition in the Making
• Annette Wilke: The Hindu-Jewish Leadership Summits: New “Ground-breaking Strides” of Global Interfaith Cooperation?
• Ping Zhang: When Chokhmah met Zhi: Perception and Misperception of Jewish Wisdom in China since the 1990s
• Gilya Gerda Schmidt: Why the Chinese People are Interested in Judaism, the Holocaust, and Israel