Monday, July 1, 2019

An interesting observation on Jewish power from WW2-era Japan

A very interest admission from a Jewish scholar writing on Jews in the Orient:
"There was a special report prepared by a Mr. Murakawa, a Vice Consul in the Shanghai Consulate General on the Russian Jewish community of Shanghai. This report was sent to the Minister of For eign Affairs. It is a lengthy report and deals with the communal activities of the Russian Jewish community and their leaders. The report includes an analysis of three organizations of approximately 5,000 Ashkenazi Jews, hitherto unmentioned. These units are a Consumers Association, a Chamber of Commerce and a Russo-Jewish People Society. These groups, together with the other organized Russian Jews, grew in importance in the history of this era because these Jews were the only ones in Shanghai to enjoy some freedom. 
There are some anti-Jewish observations in the report concerning the objectives and political affiliations of the Russian Jews. Some 2,000 of them were registered with the Russian Refugee Committee, while over 3,000 had passports from Soviet Russia, Poland, Portugal or China.
The main spirit of the report is indicated by these quotations from it: "However, no matter what kind of passports they may have or no matter what camps they may belong to, they all work for the Soviet Union.... The Jews in Russia were masters of the Soviet people up to the time of the German-Soviet war, and they still are masters at the present time. . .. The Jewish religion under the Soviet Union has become a National religion. . . . No matter what circumstances Jews may be in, they all work for the advantage of the Soviet Union. . ."
Dicker, H. (1962). Wanderers and settlers in the Far East : a century of Jewish life in China and Japan.

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