Pepper, silk & ivory: amazing stories about Jews and the Far East

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Two-Gun Cohen: A Jewish General in the Chinese Army

Chapter 2. The Secret behind One of the World's Most Famous Logos

Chapter 3. Moe Berg: Baseball Player and Spy

Chapter 4. Beate Sirota Gordon: The Only Woman in the Room

Chapter 5. Jewish Chaplains from Iwo Jima to the Bridge on the River Kwai

Chapter 6. Jacob Schiff: How $196,250,000 Changed History in Japan in 1904

Chapter 7. A Chinese Torah in Texas and Other Chinese Torahs Elsewhere

Chapter 8. The Amazing Sephardim of Shanghai

Chapter 9. Laura Margolis: The Right Person for a Difficult Job in China

Chapter 10. From Poverty to Culture: The Refugee Jewish Community in Shanghai

Chapter 11. A Comedy of Errors Reveals a Long-Lost Community of Chinese Jews

Chapter 12. Emily Hahn: The Eccentric Writer with an Unusual Companion

Chapter 13. Sex Therapist, Poker Buddy, Doctors and other Jews in Mao's Circle

Chapter 14. Jewish Contributions to Classical Music in the Far East

Chapter 15. The Only Place on Earth Where No One Knew When the Sabbath Was

Chapter 16. Garcia d'Orta: Militant Marrano of India in the 1500s

Chapter 17. The Tragic Betrayal of Wolf Ladejinsky, Asia's Agriculture Guru

Chapter 18. Where and Why Did Prime Minister Indira Gandhi Say "Mazel Tov"?

Chapter 19. Beauty Queens, Military Heroes and More: India's Bene Israel

Chapter 20. Forgotten by History: More Jewish Women and the Far East

Chapter 21. Singapore: Where the First Chief Minister was Jewish

Chapter 22. Why Did the Synagogue in Rangoon, Burma, Have 126 Torahs?

Chapter 23. How a Silver Cigarette Case Saved a Life and More

Index