Jewish Communities in Modern Asia: Background, Significance and Main Questions / Rotem Kowner -- The End of the "Jewish Triangle": Geography and Mobility in Central Asia / Thomas Loy -- The Soviet Wartime Evacuation to Central Asia and the Jews: Cultural Encounters and Literary Responses / Anna P. Ronell -- Frontier Jews: The Communities of Siberia and Their Architecture / Anna Berezin and Vladimir Levin -- Jewish Communities in the Indian Subcontinent: Torn between Indian Nationalism and Zionism / Nathan Katz, Joan G. Roland and Ithamar Theodor -- Jewish Servicemen in the Indian Subcontinent: A Unique Asian Tradition / Ran Amitai -- Cultural Exchange and Religious Guidance along the Shores of the Arabian Sea: Yemenite Jews in India and Indian Jews in Yemen / Menashe Anzi -- The Jews of Singapore: A Community Founded on the Opium Trade / Jonathan Goldstein -- From a Colonial Settlement to a New Identity: The Rise, Fall and Reemergence of the Jewish Community in Indonesia / Leonard Chrysostomos Epafras and Rotem Kowner -- Decolonization and Its Aftermath: The Fate of the Baghdadi Jewish Diaspora in British Asia / Amos Wei Wang Lim -- The Jews of Shanghai: The Emergence, Fall and Resurgence of East Asia's Largest Jewish Community / Rotem Kowner and Xu Xin -- The Jewish Community of Harbin: Its Meteoric Rise and Fall under the Shade of Three Empires / Joshua Fogel -- Taiwan: A Postwar Jewish Community without Deep Roots / Don Shapiro -- Jews in Japan: The Winding Road of a Business Community / Rotem Kowner and William Gervase Clarence-Smith -- Finding Lost Jews in Asia: The Search for Restored Authenticity and the Rewriting of Zionist History / Gideon Elazar -- Jewish Communities in Modern Asia: Underlying Commonalities, Demographic Features and Distinctive Characteristics / Rotem Kowner.
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