Authors Out Loud: Rabbi Marvin Tokayer
Marvin Tokayer
Pepper, Silk & Ivory: Amazing Stories about Jews and the Far East
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Who was the American baseball player who spied for the US in Japan? How did a juvenile delinquent become known as the "uncrowned Jewish king of China?" How did Mao Zedong come to trust his Jewish therapist, poker buddy, and doctors and more in his inner circle? Rabbi Marvin Tokayer draws on a half century of personal experiences in Asia and a wealth of knowledge about Jews and the Far East to reveal a missing page in Jewish History.
Rabbi Marvin Tokayer served as Vice President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Southeast Asia and the Far East; as a Delegate to the World Conference of Religion & Peace in 1970; as a Delegate to the First International Conference of Science, Philosophy & Religion in 1978; and as Founding Board Member of the Sino-Judaic Institute. He also wrote 7 articles on rabbinics and the Orient for the Encyclopedia Judaica; authored 20 books in Japanese on Judaica and Japan; coauthored The Fugu Plan – The Untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews During World War II; and appeared in and contributed to the award-winning PBS documentary “Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness” in 2005.