Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By admin on June 19, 2022

A surprise bestseller of the year 1970 was a book titled Nihonjin to Yudayajin (The Japanese and the Jews). It brought international fame to an author until then unknown Isaiah Ben-Dasan.

He introduces himself: a Jew born in Kobe and therefore at home in both Judaism and the religion he called Nihonkyo (Nihonism). Japanese as he saw it was more than a nationality, more than a language, more than a culture. It was all those in one, and greater than the sum of its parts. It was a culture-religion, or religion-culture, without gods and therefore distinct from, though encompassing, ancient Shinto with its myriad gods.

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How the Jewish community found a home in Japan - The Japan Times

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