The Fugu Plan: Untold Story of the Japanese .

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. A top-secret plan to create an "Israel in Asia" under Japanese control offe red a safe haven in Asia for European Jewish refuges during WWII, in exchan ge for which their economic and technical skills would be put to work moder nizing Manchuria. While the plan foundered in 1940, the lives of thousands of Jews were saved by the transit visas they had been given by the Japanese . About the Author: Rabbi Marvin Tokayer began his rabbinic career in 1962 as a U.S. Air Force chaplain stationed in southern Japan. In 1968, he returned to serve as rabbi of the one-thousand-member Jewish Community of Japan, a post he held until 1976; he remains Lifetime Honorary Rabbi of the community. He also served on the Federation of Jewish Communities of Southeast Asia and the Far East and as Founding Board Member of the Sino-Judaic Institute. Consummate storyteller Rabbi Tokayer contributed seven articles on rabbinics and the Orient for the Encyclopedia Judaica; authored twenty books in Japanese on Judaica and Japan; and coauthored (with Mary Swartz) The Fugu Plan The Untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews during World War II.

Product Info

ISBN: 083480350X

ISBN-13: 9780834803503

Publisher: Weatherhill Inc

Year: 1996

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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Country: Japan