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)

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
1. Jewish Studies at the University of Bonn
2. Between Mumbai and Manila
Bibliography
Part 1: Jewish Communities in Asia
Gabriele Shenar: Bene Israel Transnational Spaces and the Aesthetics of Community Identity
1. The Imagination of Diaspora, Aesthetics, and Identity
2. The Bene Israel Indian Jews of Maharashtra in India
3. The Bene Israel Community in Israel
4. Bene Israel Jewish Folklore and Religious Popular Culture: the malida Ritual
5. Jewish-Israeli Weddings, Bene Israel Customs and Bollywood Imageries
6. Indian `Easterness' and the Indian Way of being Israeli
Bibliography
Edith Franke: Searching for Traces of Judaism in Indonesia
1. Introduction
2. Historical Background of Jewish Life in the Indonesian Archipelago
3. First Observations of Traces of Judaism in Indonesia Today
3.1. The Synagogue in Surabaya, Java: Some Impressions
3.2. New Synagogues in Manado, North Sulawesi, and the Story of Yaacov Baruch
4. Anti-Semitism in Indonesia: Some Brief Remarks
5. Conclusion: Some Theses and Perspectives
Bibliography
Vera Leininger: Jews in Singapore: Tradition and Transformation
1. History and Origins of the Settlements
2. Jews and the Republic of Singapore: Past Creating Present
3. Jewish Life in Singapore Today
Bibliography
Sources from the Web
Manfred Hutter: The Tiny Jewish Communities in Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia
1. Introduction
2. Myanmar
3. Thailand
4. Cambodia
5. Conclusion
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Alina Pătru: Judaism in the PR China and in Hong Kong Today: Its Presence and Perception
1. Research Interest in the Religious Studies
2. Particular Aims
3. Working Methods
4. A Hong Kong Example
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Suzanne D. Rutland: The Asia-Pacific Region and Australian Jewry
1. Introduction
2. Background
2.1. Australian Jewry
2.2. Australian Government Foreign Policy
2.3. The Jewish World and Asia
3. Organizational structure
3.1. Federation of Jewish Communities of Southeast Asia and the Far East
3.2. Southeast Asia Bureau
3.3. Asia-Pacific Jewish Association
4. Regional Conferences
4.1. Hong Kong Conference, 1972
4.2. Hong Kong Conference, 1980
5. Educational Activities
5.1. Appointment of Kurt Rathner
5.2. A New Educational Director: Michael Cohen
5.3. Youth Camps and other Endeavours
6. Religious Assistance
7. Political Activities
7.1. Regional Resistance to Political Activities
7.2. The Singapore Colloquium
7.3. Leibler as de facto Roving Ambassador: China and India
7.4. The Hong Kong Colloquium
7.5. The Beijing Colloquium
8. Reasons for the Demise of the APJA
9. Significance of Australian Jewry's Role in the Asia-Pacific Area
Bibliography
Archival Materials
Archive of Australian Judaica, University of Sydney (AAJ)
Private Archive of Isi Joseph Leibler, Jerusalem (IJLA-Jer)
Dr Joachim Schneeweiss, Private Archive
La Trobe Section, State Library of Victoria (SLV)
Interviews
Part 2: Religion and Politics
Meron Medzini: Zionist Federations and Zionist Diplomacy in Asia to Ensure United Nations Support for the 1947 Partition Plan
Bibliography
Diplomatic Documents
Jonathan Goldstein / Dean Kotlowski: The Jews of Manila: Manuel Quezon, Paul McNutt, and the Politics and Consequences of Holocaust Rescue
1. Manila Jews' Communal Origins and Commercial Activity
2. The Absence of Jewish Institutional Development in Manila
3. Philippine Jews' Assistance to Holocaust Refugees
4. The Roles of McNutt and Quezon in Jewish Holocaust Rescue
5. Survival in Wartime
6. Legacies of Holocaust Rescue: The Philippine Jewish Community's Embrace of Zionism and Assistance to the State of Israel
Bibliography
Malte Gaier: Jews in Pakistan in the Context of Estranged Pakistani-Israeli Relations
1. Jewish-Muslim Perceptions
2. Pakistani-Israeli Relations
3. The Nuclear Factor and Strategic Security Interests
Bibliography
Pingan Liang / Zheng Liang: The Bilateral Relations between Israel and Modern China (1948–2010)
1. Overview
2. Respective Incentives to Promote the Bilateral Relations (1949–1955)
3. The Gap, Isolation and Hostility between the Two Countries (1956–1978)
4. The Defrosting Era (1982–1991)
5. The Establishment of Diplomacy (1992)
6. Present Situation
7. Conclusion
Bibliography
Theo Kamsma: The Artful Deletion of Israeli / Jewish Presence in the Straits
1. Veiled, Silenced and Deleted Presence
2. Skyhawk Fighter Planes
3. Mexicans
4. Singapore's New Economy
4.1. Jeremy Lint Lintechnologies
4.2. Oliver Stern's NEWater
4.3. Vertex Venture Capital
5. Tsunami Relief Operations
6. The Art of Deleting
7. Concluding: Counteracting the Art of Deletion
Bibliography
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
1. Nissim Ezekiel (1924–2004)
2. Sheila Rohekar (born 1942)
3. Esther David (born 1945)
4. Conclusion
Bibliography
Yudit Kornberg Greenberg: Hindu-Jewish Dialogue: A New Tradition in the Making
1. Introduction
2. The 2007 Delhi Summit
2.1. Goals for the 2007 Hindu-Jewish Dialogue
2.2. Highlights of the Delhi Dialogue
2.3. Hindu-Jewish Declarations
3. The 2008 Jerusalem Summit
4. The Hindu-Jewish Summits in Light of Indo-Judaic and Comparative Religious Studies
5. Future Topics and Challenges for Hindu-Jewish Dialogues
Bibliography
Annette Wilke: The Hindu-Jewish Leadership Summits: New “Ground-breaking Strides” of Global Interfaith Cooperation?
1. The Framework: the Actors and Discourses
1.1. Hindu-Jewish Resonances
1.2. The Political Dimension and the Succeeding Meetings
1.2.1. Delhi 2007
1.2.2. Jerusalem 2008
1.2.3. New York 2009
1.2.4. Delhi 2011
2. The Declarations of the Two Leadership Summits
3. Rabbi Daniel Sperber's Paper and Swami Dayananda's Reaction
4. Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Ping Zhang: When Chokhmah met Zhi: Perception and Misperception of Jewish Wisdom in China since the 1990s
1. Chokhmah vs. Zhi, Wisdoms of Way-seekers and Torah-seekers
2. When Chokhmah met Zhi: A Brief History of “Jewish Wisdom” in Modern China since the 1990s
3. Misperception: A Case Study of the Faked Derech Eretz Zuta and of the “Parallel Logic”
4. Conclusions: a Failure to Grasp the Betweenness
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Gilya Gerda Schmidt: Why the Chinese People are Interested in Judaism, the Holocaust, and Israel
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