(China/Asia/Opium) Shanghai's Jews: Art, Architecture and "Survival" (Sassoon & Co)

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(China/Asia/Opium) Shanghai's Jews: Art, Architecture and Survival (Sassoon & Co)

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Featured is the program Shanghai's Jews: Art, Architecture and Survival which took place March 4, 2010. In it, Nancy Berliner explores the transformation of Shanghai into a multi-cultural, international city, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Three waves of Jewish immigrants from the Middle East, Russia and Germany discovered in this port city both a hospitable refuge from persecution, and an opportunity to create a new community.

Nancy Berliner is curator of Chinese art at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, and has curated exhibits of Chinese arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others. She has lectured at Harvard University, Dartmouth College, the Asia Society of Houston, and the China Institute. She has written for the New York Times, Asian Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Asian Art, and American Craft magazines, and is the author of "Yin Yu Tang: The Architecture and Daily Life of a Chinese House", "Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Century", and "Chinese Folk Art".

Co-sponsored by the Asian Art Museum, which is presenting the exhibition Shanghai, through September 15. Also presented in collaboration with the Holocaust Center of Northern California and the American Jewish Committees San Francisco office.


Victor Sassoon



Sir Ellice "Victor" Sassoon, 3rd Baronet, GBE (20 December 1881 – 13 August 1961) was a businessman and hotelier from the Sassoon banking family.

Sir Victor Sassoon walked with the aid of two sticks as the result of injuries in World War I in which he served in the Royal Flying Corps.

He succeeded to the Baronetcy on the death of his father Edward Elias Sassoon in 1924. He had no issue, and the Baronetcy became extinct on his death.

He lived in Shanghai as a wealthy bon vivant who worked tirelessly to protect Western interests in the Orient and helped European Jews survive in the Shanghai Ghetto. He founded the Cathay Hotel (now the Peace Hotel) but left under increasing Japanese pressure in 1941.[1] He was also an avid photographer and held extravagant parties at his hotel. Late in his life, Sassoon converted to Buddhism. Sassoon was related by marriage to the Mocatta family and he himself was a Sephardic Jew. One of his former employees, Lord Kadoorie, later founded the Hong Kong based utility company China Light and Power. One of his right hand men in Shanghai was Gordon Currie who was put into a concentration camp by the Japanese and remained there for several years.

During the 1950s Sassoon lived at his home on Cable Beach in Nassau, The Bahamas. Late in life he married his American nurse, "Barnsie", who remained in Nassau long after Sassoon's death in the early 1960s. Lady Sassoon continued to provide support for the charity founded by her late husband to help Bahamian children, by hosting the black-tie Heart Ball each year over the Valentine's Day weekend.

[edit] Woodditton Stud
A fan of thoroughbred horse racing, he owned a highly successful stable of horses that won numerous prestigious races in the United Kingdom. In 1925 he purchased Woodditton Stud in Cambridgeshire not far from the Newmarket Racecourse. He remamed it Eve Stud Ltd. as he was know to his intimates as 'Eve'- a contraction of his first two names, Ellice Victor. Today, it is owned by Darley Stud Management.

Among his stables' significant performances were wins in the Epsom Derby, Epsom Oaks, 1,000 Guineas, 2,000 Guineas, St. Leger Stakes, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. He is quoted to have once said: "There is only one race greater than the Jews, and that is the Derby."[citation needed]

The Sassoon Road in Hong Kong is named in his honour.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Sassoon

Jacob Sassoon, the Jewish millionaire
 

http://app1.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2001/0510/cu18-2.html

Sassoon family



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassoon_family


OF all the Jewish families that had prospered in Shanghai, the Sassoons were probably the most famous. They once owned the Cathay Hotel, today's Peace Hotel, which stands prominent on the Bund as a monument to Shanghai's past.



First Opium War



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War

opium wars jews - google

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Opium Wars Jews - video.google

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Jews Created Opium Trade - Hong Kong and The Sassoon Opium Wars

http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/history/asia/news.php?q=1234729944

Jews and the Opium Wars

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David Sassoon



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sassoon

Silas Aaron Hardoon



Silas was born Sileh Hardoon (סאלח חרדון) into a poor Jewish family in Baghdad.[1][2] His family left Baghdad for Bombay where he was educated at a charitable school funded by David Sassoon.

Hardoon traveled to the city of Shanghai in 1868 where he entered the employ of David Sassoon, Sons & Company as a rent collector and watchman. He rose quickly through the ranks of that company, displaying a talent for real estate. After leaving that company he expanded his interests into cotton, becoming a partner in E. D. Sassoon's and Company. Shrewd investments, particularly in properties on Shanghai's "Fifth Avenue," Nanking Road, eventually made him one of that city's wealthiest inhabitants.

Hardoon was a student of Buddhism, establishing a school for monks at Ai-li Park, his twenty-six-acre estate, and personally financing the printing of Buddhist writings. When he died in 1931, his personal fortune was estimated to be worth $150,000,000.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_Aaron_Hardoon

Edward Isaac Ezra

Ezra's relationship to the Sassoon family by marriage, and his immense wealth allowed him both social standing and political position.

From 1912 to 1918, Ezra was one of the nine-member Shanghai Municipal Council that administered the International Settlement.[37] Despite an obvious conflict of interest in relation to his opium business, Ezra refused to resign from the Council. In 1919 Ezra resigned from public life because of a gambling scandal involving his brother, Judah, who had paid the favourite team to lose in a baseball tournament in 1918.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Isaac_Ezra

Ohel Rachel





Ohel Moshe



Beit (Beth) Aharon



Broadway Mansions



History of the Jews in China

Jews of Kaifeng, late 19th or early 20th c.



Bird's eye view of the synagogue of Kaifeng




Jacob Rosenfeld, a doctor for the New Fourth Army, between Liu Shaoqi (left) and Chen Yi (right)



Notable Jews in China

Solomon Adler
Aaron Avshalomov
Jacob Avshalomov
Abba Berman
Charles K. Bliss
Michael Blumenthal
Mikhail Borodin
Morris "Two-Gun" Cohen
Ephraim Einhorn
Israel Epstein
Edward Isaac Ezra
Stanisław Flato
Amir Gal-Or
Anatoli Gekker
Eduard Glass
Leo Hanin
Silas Aaron Hardoon
George Hatem
Noel Jacobs
Otto Joachim
Adolph Joffe
Ellis Kadoorie
Elly Kadoorie
Horace Kadoorie
 Michael Kadoorie
Lawrence Kadoorie
Shimon Sholom Kalish
Yisrael Mendel Kaplan
Simon Kaspé
Abraham Kaufman
Ruth Kuczynski
Eliyahu Lankin
Yechezkel Levenstein
Yaacov Liberman
Genrikh Lyushkov
Francis Mankiewicz
Peter Max
Michael Medavoy
Matthew Nathan
Karl Friedrich Neumann
Teodor Parnicki
Ludwik Rajchman
Sidney Rittenberg
Rene Rivkin
Friedrich Rosen
Jakob Rosenfeld
Serge Rubanraut
Jakob Rudnik
 Eva Sandberg
David Salem Shaloam
David Sassoon
Elias David Sassoon
Edward Elias Sassoon
Jacob Elias Sassoon
Victor Sassoon
Otto Schnepp
Sidney Shapiro
Hans Shippe
Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster
Robert Skidelsky
Marc Aurel Stein
Manfred Stern
John G. Stoessinger
Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln
Laurence Tribe
Joseph Trumpeldor
Grigori Voitinsky
Yochanan Vollach
Franz Weidenreich
Zhao Yingcheng
Zhao Yingdou
George Zames

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_China

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