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Amazing Stories About Jews and the Far East
PEPPER, SILK & IVORY
Uncover a missing and significant chapter in Jewish history,
and a story virtually unknown to the Western World
Did you know that it was a 22-year-old Jewish woman who wrote women's rights into the Japanese Constitution following World War 2? She was far ahead of her time!
Or that a grammar school dropout, later nick-named "Two-Gun Cohen", became a General in the Chinese army?
To bring this fascinating and overlooked part of the Jewish experience to life, Rabbi Marvin Tokayer, one of the world's foremost authorities on the little-known history of Jews in the Far East, and Ellen Rodman, Ph.D. wrote PEPPER, SILK & IVORY: Amazing Stories about Jews and the Far East.
The authors traveled the world to collect details of these amazing stories from personal interviews, official records, home videos and scrapbooks, and eyewitnesses. Many of the facts they relate have never before been published. PEPPER, SILK & IVORY spins eye-opening tales of beauty queens, feisty primates, sacred texts, even a Jewish kingdom... the unknown but fascinating Jewish history that took place in Asia over a period of 2000 years.
From "Japan’s Schindler" to "the Jewish James Bond" to a Jewish connection to the Taj Mahal, the compelling stories of Jews in Asia, including the role the Japanese played in saving the lives of tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, are fascinating parts of history never before witnessed by most Western audiences. The reviews of the book are outstanding.
“These are delightful, informative, and altogether fascinating stories. Tokayer and Rodman have filled an important gap in Jewish history.”
- Richard Zoglin, author and
Time Magazine theater critic
About The Authors
Rabbi Marvin Tokayer
One of the world's foremost authorities on the Jewish Experience in the Far East, Marvin Tokayer lived in Japan and was rabbi of the Jewish Community of Japan before being appointed vice president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Southeast Asia and the Far East. For more than 36 years, he traveled… Read More
Dr. Ellen Rodman
This veteran writer/producer is president of LN Productions LLC, a production and media consulting company based in New York. Rodman served as an executive at NBC and at Group W where she received the DuPont Columbia Award for “Whispering Hope,” the company’s programming and… Read More