The Jews of Harbin (Revised Edition)

Author: Jewish Research Center of Heilongjiang Academy of Social Sciences
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: This book is a pictorial collection. It records that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, tens of thousands of Jews fled persecution and flocked to Harbin, the emerging city by the Songhua River. Harbin once became the largest Jewish settlement center in Northeast Asia. In Harbin, Jewish names did not 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 (Kabalkin), department stores (Samsonovich), printing presses (Frenkel, Abramovich, Lepberg, Bursuk), candy factories and pastry shops, restaurants (Dreig, Zuckerman, and Bleser's "Mars" and "Victoria"), the pharmacy opened by Gurevich Goven, and the internationally renowned "Maidel" hotel established by Joseph #8226; Kafpe.