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May 2008, Vol 98, No. 5 | American Journal of Public Health 823
© 2008 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.129742

IMAGES OF HEALTH

The Sungari River Flood and the Jewish Community in Harbin, China

Nava Blum, PhD and Elizabeth Fee, PhD

Nava Blum is with the Social Welfare and Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel. Elizabeth Fee is with the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be addressed to Nava Blum, PhD, School of Public Health, Haifa University, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel (e-mail: navablum@hotmail.com).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


Figure 1
The Jewish pharmacy in Harbin, 1932.

Source. Reprinted with permission from Teddy Kaufman.4

BETWEEN THE LATE 19TH century and mid-20th century, Harbin, a multicultural city in northern China, was the largest political, economic, and cultural center for Jewish people in East Asia. Between the late 19th century and the mid-20th century, Russian Jews migrated to Harbin in several waves, in part to escape the pogroms, deportations, and restriction they faced in Czarist Russia, in part to follow the economic opportunities provided by the building of the Trans-Siberian Railway connecting Moscow and Peking (now Beijing). Russian Jews were railway workers, merchants, . . . [Full Text]






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