Mishberei Yam, R. Aaron Moses Kissilov, Harbin, China 1926
משברי ים - Only Edition
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- Lot Number 50025
- Title (English) Mishberei Yam
- Title (Hebrew) משברי ים
- Note Only Edition
- Author R. Aaron Moses Kissilov
- City Harbin, China
- Publisher M. Levitin
- Publication Date 1926
- Estimated Price - Low 300
- Estimated Price - High 600
- Item # 1596856
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Detail Description
By 1903 a self-administered Jewish community existed in Harbin, numbering 500 Jews. After the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, many demobilized Jewish soldiers settled in Harbin, followed by refugees from the 1905–07 pogroms. By 1908 there were 8,000 Jews in the city, and a central synagogue was built in 1909. Several institutions came into being within the community, including clubs, a home for the aged, and a hospital providing care for all other nationalities as well. A heder was established in Harbin in 1907 and a Jewish secondary school (Yevreyskaya Gimnaziya) in 1909, which had 100 pupils in 1910. However, 70% of the Jewish pupils attended non-Jewish schools, because a numerus clausus did not exist for Jews in Harbin. The influx of Jewish refugees during World War I, the Russian Revolution (1917), and the Russian civil war sharply increased the Jewish community, which reached its peak 10,000–15,000 in the early 1930s. A Jewish National Bank was established in Harbin in 1923 as well as a Jewish library. Between 1918 and 1930 about 20 Jewish newspapers and periodicals were also established. All were in Russian except the Yiddish Der Vayter Mizrekh, appearing three times a week with a circulation of 300 in 1921–22.
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References
Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000163595; EJ