Jews in Harbin

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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: This book is a pictorial collection. It records that at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, tens of thousands of Jews fled persecution and flocked to Harbin, a newly emerging city on the banks of the Songhua River. Harbin once became the largest Jewish settlement center in Northeast Asia. In Harbin, Jewish names didn’t matter: the flour industry of the Kroll and Soskin families, the Soskin Shipping Company, Zikman’s sugar factory, the fur trade (Avman), coal mining (Skidelsky), soybean processing plants (Kabalkin), department stores (Samsonovich), printing plants (Frenkel, Abramovich, Lepberg, Bursuk), candy factories and pastry shops, restaurants (Deling, Zuckerman, and Bleser’s "Mars" and "Victoria"), the pharmacy opened by Golievich Goven, and the internationally renowned "Maidel" hotel established by Joseph #8226; Kafpe.