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Its Meteoric Rise and Fall under the Shade of Three Empires
from Part iv - East Asia: Communities and Strife in the Sinosphere
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 August 2023
This chapter on Harbin deals with the first city Jews settled in substantial numbers in modern China. Mostly émigrés from Russia, these Jews prospered during the first decades of the twentieth century as Harbin became a main hub for the Trans-Siberian Railway. At its peak, the Jewish community produced as many as twenty newspapers, but with the Japanese occupation of the city in 1932 and even more during the Chinese Civil War, the prosperity ended and the majority of its members left.
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