Marvin Tokayer
Autore di The Fugu Plan: The Untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews During World War II
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Pepper, silk & ivory : amazing stories about Jews… di Marvin Tokayer
Consummate storyteller, Rabbi Tokayer draws on personal experiences in Asia to reveal amazing stories of Jews who both benefitted from and contributed to the Far East. Here you will read about a woman who refused to give up until the Japanese Constitution included rights for women and children, and American baseball player who spied for the U.S. in Japan, and the secret behind one of the world’s most famous logos. These are only a few of the fascinating stories presented here. A must read!
Between 1934 and 1940 a secret policy was devised in the highest councils of the Japanese government. If it had succeeded, it might have saved a million Jews from the Holocaust and even prevented the war between Japan and the United States. This policy was the Fugu Plan – Tokyo’s idea of enrolling the talents and skills of European Jewry, plus the capital, influence, and sympathy of American Jewry, in the building of Japan’s 20th century empire. Rabbi Tokayer who served in Japan and Mary Swartz, who he met there, pieced together this wonderful, little known, saga.… (altro)
Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.This book slipped by the wayside for a while there (oops!), so I had only read about half of it, and now finally just got to the other half. So when I added it, I glanced at the reviews. I'm sad to see so many negative remarks!
Personally, I thought this was excellent, and would recommend it to anyone curious about the history of Jews around the world. I had no idea Jews had such a prominent history in the East!
One reviewer commented "stylistically it reminds me of when my grandmother tells stories: kind of anecdotal and broad-ranging ... I wish the focus were narrower and it delved deeper." Now, if it were a novel, or a book about a single person, sure, I would have a problem with that. But since this is someone sitting the reader down and sharing with them the history of many people, I think "grandma telling stories" does fit the style Tokayer presents, and I think that is perfect! I also think that unless someone wants to read a multi-volume encyclopedia about Jews in the Far East, there is obviously only so much detail that can be covered! It's pretty clear to me that the point of this work is to highlight a good number of people in a reasonable amount of space. So that's what we get, the highlights. It's saying Hey, look, there's so many important and fascinating people you've never heard of! See what you're missing out on?
Many of the amazing people covered have written their own works, novels, poetry, history, etc, as well as autobiographies - which are mentioned; so anyone who is intrigued by these slices of narrative can go out and acquire the works that have all the detail. But it would be impossible to cover all that detail on all those people in one volume!
So for me, I was delighted to learn about all these incredible people, and while this was not a fast-paced edge-of-your-seat thriller to zip through, I found the style just right for the contents. Pepper, Silk, & Ivory is a great introduction to a great many fascinating people!… (altro)
Personally, I thought this was excellent, and would recommend it to anyone curious about the history of Jews around the world. I had no idea Jews had such a prominent history in the East!
One reviewer commented "stylistically it reminds me of when my grandmother tells stories: kind of anecdotal and broad-ranging ... I wish the focus were narrower and it delved deeper." Now, if it were a novel, or a book about a single person, sure, I would have a problem with that. But since this is someone sitting the reader down and sharing with them the history of many people, I think "grandma telling stories" does fit the style Tokayer presents, and I think that is perfect! I also think that unless someone wants to read a multi-volume encyclopedia about Jews in the Far East, there is obviously only so much detail that can be covered! It's pretty clear to me that the point of this work is to highlight a good number of people in a reasonable amount of space. So that's what we get, the highlights. It's saying Hey, look, there's so many important and fascinating people you've never heard of! See what you're missing out on?
Many of the amazing people covered have written their own works, novels, poetry, history, etc, as well as autobiographies - which are mentioned; so anyone who is intrigued by these slices of narrative can go out and acquire the works that have all the detail. But it would be impossible to cover all that detail on all those people in one volume!
So for me, I was delighted to learn about all these incredible people, and while this was not a fast-paced edge-of-your-seat thriller to zip through, I found the style just right for the contents. Pepper, Silk, & Ivory is a great introduction to a great many fascinating people!… (altro)
Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.The content of this book is quite interesting but the writing style is only ok, which means I would only recommend this book to people interested in Jews in the Far East or other related subjects rather than a particularly good non-fiction book. It was nice to read these stories, which came across very personally, especially given the fact that the author knew or knows many of the parties involved or their descendants.
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