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[Tianjin/Tientsin, China] Jewish Club "Kunst" (Tientsin) : CONSTITUTION & BY-LAWS OF THE JEWISH CLUB “KUNST.” USTAV YEVREYSKOGO KLUBA "KUNST." [1930]

Tientsin: No Publisher [The Club, printed by the Pioneer Press], 1930

1st edition. Original beige printed paper wrappers, 12mo, 16 pages, 17 cm. In English and Russian. Copy belonging to Leo Gershevitch, President of the Culture Club 'Kunst, theTientsin Jewish Hebrew Association, The Tientsin Zionist Organization, The Tientsin Jewish Union, the Tientsin Hebrew school, ’ and other Jewish organizations in Tientsin, with his Yiddish stamp on cover. The “Kunst” club was a Jewish theater group in Tianjin (“Kunst” means “Art” in German and Yiddish). Up until 1904 only ten Jewish families lived in Tientsin. In 1906 the Jews established the Tientsin Jewish Union which rendered various religious services. Side by side with this union the Tientsin Hebrew Association was active in the city and took care of welfare needs such as soup kitchens, hospitals, homes for the elderly, etc. The 1917 Russian Revolution fueled the rapid growth of the city's Jewish population with many Jewish immigrants from Russia, and “in 1920 the community was formally named The Hebrew Association of Tientsin (THA) [The organization named here in this charter booklet]. In this context the community built a synagogue, engaged a Rabbi and a Shochet, and provided full religious services. Committees for Eretz Israel affairs and hospitals were set up. A singular feature of the community was the establishment of the Benevolent Society in 1920, whose aim was to assist Jews in need and help them settle into their new environment.” Tianjin soon became the third largest Jewish community in China, after Shanghai and Harbin. In 1935, the number of Jewish people in Tianjin reached 3,500. Though most Jews left the city after the 1949 Chinese Revolution. (sinojudaic.org/tianjin), large numbers of Jewish refugees had been streaming to Tianjin before and during World War II, with the city occupied by the Japanese from July 1937 to August 1945. For more on the Tianjin/Tiensin Jewish community, see also https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/harbin/Growing_Up_in_Tientsin_Chapter_22. pdf. A copy of a similar booklet sold at auction in 2023 for $875 (with commission). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- China -- Tientsin -- History -- Societies, etc. OCLC: 234094994. OCLC lists one copy worldwide (NLI). Punch holes to inner margin (as issued?), toning to cover, Very Good Condition, an outstanding copy of this rare and important booklet . (Holo2-160-9)

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