If You Are Pleased with the “Jewish Dally Bulletin” Tell Your Friends to Subscribe.
The 3,500 Jews of Shanghai, most of whom are of Sephardic origin and well-to-do, are not at all perturbed at the internal difficulties that China has been experiencing of late, declared George Sokolsky, editor of the “Far Eastern Review,” himself a New York Jew, who was one of the speakers at the annual conference of the International Institute of Politics here, in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Mr. Sokolsky has spent twelve years in China.
Mr. Sokolsky said that the majority of the Jews in Shanghai are engaged in the fur trade and real estate. Most of them came from Bagdad in 1845. In recent years Jewish immigrants have been coming into Shanghai from Russia. For some time there was no social contact between the Sephardic Jews and the Russian immigrants, Mr. Sokolsky said.
Of late, however, closer relations have existed between these two groups. The establishment of a lodge of the B’nai B’rith in Shanghai has done much to bring together the Sephardic and Ashkenazic elements of the Shanghai Jewish community, Mr. Sokolsky pointed out. He explained that Shanghai boasts of three synagogues, two Sephardic and one Ashkenazic. In recent years the Zionist movement has won a large following in Shanghai, he stated. There is also a Jewish weekly paper published in Shanghai, “Israel’s Messenger.”
If You Are Pleased with the “Jewish Dally Bulletin” Tell Your Friends to Subscribe.
Help ensure Jewish news remains accessible to all. Your donation to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency powers the trusted journalism that has connected Jewish communities worldwide for more than 100 years. With your help, JTA can continue to deliver vital news and insights. Donate today.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
