Little is known about the vast individual Jewish contribution to the development and history of the modern Far East. Two American authors reveal this missing page in Jewish history in their work, based on 40 years of research.
Rabbi Marvin Tokayer, a US Air Force chaplain and the only English-speaking, university-educated rabbi of the Jewish communities in the Far East until 1976, previously co-authored The Fugu Plan: The Untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews During World War II with Mary Swartz. Tokayer now teams up with Dr.
Ellen Rodman, a writer and TV producer, on Pepper, Silk and Ivory: Amazing Stories About Jews and the Far East, recalling the biographies and stories of all those Jews who both benefited from and contributed to the Far East.
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