JONATHAN GOLDSTEIN

History Department, State University of West Georgia

Carrollton, GA 30118-2120

TEL: [770] 836-4557or 836-6508 [leave message]

CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION:

Professor of East Asian History at the State University of West Georgia [since 1981]. Teaching responsibilities at West Georgia include graduate and undergraduate courses on China, Japan, India, Vietnam, and The Holocaust.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

Ph.D.. in Chinese and American History [1973], University of Pennsylvania. DISSERTATION: “The China Trade from Philadelphia, 1682-1846: A Study of Interregional Commerce and Cultural Interaction.” Directed by F. H. Conroy [principal advisor], R. M. Hartwell, and T. C. Cochran. Published by University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1974, Order No. 74-14,066, and in revised form as Philadelphia and the China Trade, 1682-1846. Commercial, Cultural, and Attitudinal Effects. University Park and London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1978. Dissertation abstracted in Ch’ing-shih wen-t’i [Washington, DC] 2, no. 10 [November 1973], pp. 60-62 and Dissertation Abstracts International [Ann Arbor, MI] 34, no. 12 [June 1974], pp. 7675-A-7676-A.

M.A., Chinese and American History [1970], University of Pennsylvania.

B.A., Chinese History [1969], University of Pennsylvania. SENIOR HONORS THESIS: “The Ethics of Tribute Versus the Profits of Trade: Stephen Girard’s China Trade, 1787-1824.” Won University of Pennsylvania’s top Arthur Pryor Watts Memorial Prize [“in history, for the best Senior Honors Thesis.”]

COLLEGE TEACHING EXPERIENCE APART FROM STATE UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA:

“The Jews of Lithuania” as Visiting Professor at the University of Cape Town [1999]

“The United States and Vietnam” as Visiting Professor at the University of Maine at Orono [1994, 1995, 1996, 1997]

“Vietnam War” as Visiting Professor at University of Southern Maine [1991, 1992, 1993]

“Modern China,” “Modern Japan,” and “Traditional China” at Nasson College [1980-81]

ACADEMIC AWARDS/HONORS/RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS:

Pacific Cultural Foundation research grants on the Jews of China [1995], Sino-Israeli relations [1998], and America’s first sinologist [1999].

Association for Asian Studies’ China and Inner Asian Council/Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation grant for research on the Jews of China [1996].

Fulbright-Hays awards for research on Jewish communities in Asia [India, 1989; China, Japan, 1990].

National Endowment for the Humanities grants to attend faculty development institutes on Asia in the undergraduate curriculum, Columbia University, 1986; on Judaic Studies in the undergraduate curriculum, Brown University, 1988; Oxford University, 2003.

Harvard University/National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships for research on nineteenth-century Japanese History [1985, 1986].

American Philosophical Society Penrose Fund grant for research on early Sino-American relations [1974].

SERVICE TO THE HISTORICAL PROFESSION:

Organizer and chairman of National Endowment for the Humanities-funded research conference on “Jewish Diasporas in China: Comparative and Historical Perspectives,” Harvard University Fairbank Center, August 1992. Many of the papers are included in my book The Jews of China [see below]. See also: Jonathan Goldstein, “Jews in China: A Pathbreaking Conference,” Fairbank Center News [Cambridge, MA] no. 1 [Spring 1993], pp. 4-5; Anson Laytner, “When East Meets West: A Ground-breaking Conference Studies Jewish Diasporas in China,” Points East [Menlo Park, CA] 7, no. 2 [October 1992], pp. 8-11; Edith and Isidore Chevat, “Harvard Sponsors a Conference on the Jewish Diasporas,” U. S.-China Review [New York] 16, no. 4 [Fall 1992], pp. 10-12; and “Chinese Jews intrigue experts,” The Jerusalem Post, August 25, 1992, p. 12.

Organizer and chairperson of the panel “Fresh Perspectives on Qing Dynasty Maritime Trade,” Association for Asian Studies, Boston, April 12, 1987. Papers from the panel are included in the anthology Fresh Perspectives on Qing Dynasty Maritime Relations [see below].

Chairperson of twenty-fifth annual Southeastern Regional Conference, Association for Asian Studies, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, January 1986. Papers from the conference are included or abstracted in Kenneth W. Berger, ed., Asian Studies in the Southeast: A Twenty-five Year Retrospect [Columbia, SC: Southeast Conferece, Association for Asian Studies, 1987] and Annals of the Southeast Conference, Association for Asian Studies [Columbia, SC] 8 [1987].

Member, Asian Advisory Committee, Peabody Essex Museum [formerly Peabody Museum of Salem], Salem, Massachusetts, 1993-present.

PUBLICATIONS IN EAST ASIAN HISTORY/ INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:

Publications in East Asian History/International Relations: Books:

Goldstein, Jonathan. Philadelphia and the China Trade, 1682-1846. Commercial, Cultural, and Attitudinal Effects. University Park and London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1978. Book won certificate of commendation from American Association for State and Local History [1979].

Goldstein, Jonathan; Jerry Israel; and F. H. Conroy, eds. America Views China: American Images of China Then and Now. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Lehigh University Press, 1991. One chapter and bibliography by Goldstein.

Goldstein, Jonathan, ed., intro., and one chapter. Georgia’s East Asian Connection: Into the Twenty-first Century. Carrollton, Georgia: West Georgia College Studies in the Social Sciences, 1990.

Goldstein, Jonathan, ed. and intro. Fresh Perspectives on Qing Dynasty Maritime Relations. Special [Fall 1988] issue of The American Neptune. Salem, Mass.: The Peabody Museum of Salem, 1988.

Goldstein, Jonathan, ed., intro. and one chapter. Georgia’s East Asian Connection, 1733-1983. Carrollton, Georgia: West Georgia College Studies in the Social Sciences, 1983.

Goldstein, Jonathan, ed. University Hospital Antiques Show/1972. Catalog of loan exhibition on “Philadelphia’s China Trade.” [Philadelphia: University Hospital Antiques Show, 1972].

Publications in East Asian History/International Relations: Chapters in Books:

Goldstein, Jonathan. “Agent Orange on Campus: The Spicerack-Summit Controversy at the University of Pennsylvania, 1965-1967.” In Barbara L. Tischler, ed., Sights on the Sixties, pp. 43-61. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992. Alternate versions in John Dumbrell, ed. Vietnam and the Antiwar Movement, pp. 43-67. Aldershot, Eng. and Brookfield, VT: Gower, 1989; Annals of the Southeast Conference, Association for Asian Studies 5 [1983], pp. 78-99; Peace and Change [Kent, OH] 11, no. 2 [1986], pp. 27-49; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars [Berthoud, CO] 15, no. 4 [October-December, 1983], pp. 26-38. Abstract in Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Newsletter 14, no. 3 [September 1983], pp. 27-28.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “Historical Documents Relating to Asian-Americans and East Asia in the Atlanta Regional Archives Branch.” In Kenneth W. Berger, ed. Asian Resources in the Southeastern United States: Archival and Manuscript Resources on East Asia in Georgia, pp. 23-53. [Durham, NC]: Southeast Conference, Association for Asian Studies, 1985. Alternate version in Association for Asian Studies Committee on East Asian Libraries Bulletin 74, [June 1984], pp. 19-23]. Article abstracted in Annals of the Southeast Conference, Association for Asian Studies 6 [1984], pp. 16-17, and as Checklist of Records Available for Research on the Far East [East Point, GA: Atlanta Regional Archives Branch, 1984].

Goldstein, Jonathan. “Cantonese Artifacts, Chinoiserie and the Formation of an Early American Image of the Chinese.” In Genny Lim, ed., The Chinese American Experience: Papers from the Second Natonal Conference on Chinese American Studies [1980], pp. 256-58. San Francisco: The Chinese Historical Society of America and The Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, n. d. [approx. 1984]. Alternate versions in Bulletin of the Chinese Historical Society of America 14, no. 7 [September 1979], pp. 2-6; American Studies [Academica Sinica, Taipei] 10, no. 3 [September 1980], pp. 1-13; Asian Culture Quarterly [Taipei] 9, no. 1 [Spring, 1981], pp. 1-5; Oriental Art [London] New Series 14, no. 1 [Spring 1990], pp.7-16; and in Jonathan Goldstein, ed., America Views China [1991] [see above], pp. 43-55. Abstracted in Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Newsletter 10, no. 1 [March 1979], pp. 43-44; 11, no. 4 [December 1980], pp. 22-23.

Other Scholarly Publications in East Asian History/International Relations:

Goldstein, Jonathan. “A Philadelphia Author Turns to China: Robert Waln, Jr., as America’s First Sinologist.” The American Asian Review [South Orange, NJ] 21, no. 3 [Fall 2003], pp. 187-203.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “The Andrew Jackson Administration and the Orient, 1829-1837.” Sino-American Relations [Taipei] 29, no. 1[Spring 2003], pp.68-105.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “A China Trader Turns China Scholar: Robert Waln, Jr. as America’s First Sinologist.” Mains’l Haul: A Journal of Pacific Maritime History [San Diego] 39, no. 2 [Spring 2003], pp. 20-28; alternate versions in The Virginia Review of Asian Studies 4 [Fall 2002], pp. 9-19 and Asian Culture Quarterly 27, no. 1 [Spring 1999], pp. 1-13.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “For Gold, Glory, and Knowledge: The Andrew Jackson Administration and the Orient, 1829-1837.” International Journal of Maritime History [St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada] 13, no. 2 [December 2001], pp. 137-163. Alternate version in Asian Culture Quarterly 28, no. 2 [Summer 2000], pp. 55-79.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “America’s First Sinologist: Philadelphia’s Robert Waln, Jr.” Sino-American Relations 27, no. 4 [Winter 2001], pp. 82-101.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “From Allied War to Cold War: The Reaction of American Labor Unions to the Chinese Revolution and Civil War, 1941-1951.” The Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2 [Fall 2000], pp. 75-83.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “James Albert Bancker’s Tumultuous Years in China, 1842-49.” The American Asian Review [South Orange, NJ] 15, no. 1 [Spring 1997], pp. 119-39.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “The August, 1990, International Conference on the Opium War: An Evaluation.” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Newsletter 22, no. 3 [September 1991], pp. 28-38.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “Old China Trade Documents in Several East Coast Libraries: Their Usefulness to Historians of China, the United States, and Sino-American Relations.” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Newsletter 20, no. 4 [December 1989], pp. 5-17.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “Old China Trade Documents in the Mid-Atlantic States Region.” Association for Asian Studies Committee on East Asian Libraries Bulletin [Bloomington, IN] no. 86 [February 1989], pp. 21-28. Published in Chinese in Qingshi Yanjiu Tongxun [“Qing Dynasty research publication”] [Institute of History, Beijing Academy of Social Sciences] 1 [1990], pp. 48-50.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “The Empress of China Bicentennial, American Decorative Arts, and Early American Idealization of China.” The American Asian Review [Queens, NY] 6, no. 7 [Summer 1988], pp. 56-7l.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “Edward Sylvester Morse [1838-1925] as Expert and Western Observer in Meiji Japan.” Journal of Intercultural Studies [Osaka] 14 [1987], pp. 61-81. Alternate versions in The American Asian Review [Queens, NY] 4, no. 3 [Fall 1986], pp. 6-67, and in The East [Tokyo] 23, no. 1[April 1987], pp. 16-20, 53; no. 2 [June 1987], pp. 12-17. Article abstracted in Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Newsletter 17, no. 4 [December 1986], p. 28.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “Resources on Early Sino-American Relations in Philadelphia’s Stephen Girard Collection and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.” Association for Asian Studies Committee on East Asian Libraries Bulletin no. 60 [October 1979], pp. 16-23. Alternate version in Ch’ing-shih wen-t’i 4, no. 3 [June 1980], pp. 114-29. Abstracted in Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Newsletter 10, no. 4 [December 1979], pp. 23-24.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “The Continuing Romance of Old Cathay and Early America.” New China [New York] 4, no. 4 [Winter 1979], pp. 20-24.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “Chinese Art Comes to Washington.” Korea Focus [New York] 4, no. 1 [March-April 1975], pp. 60-63.

Review of Maisie J. Meyer, From the Rivers of Babylon to the Whangpoo: A Century of Sephardi Jewish Life in Shanghai in China Review International [Honolulu] [forthcoming]; republished in Points East 19, no. 1 [March 2004], pp. 11-12; Bulletin of the Igud Yotzei Sin [Tel Aviv] 50, no. 379 [March-April 2004], pp. 24-26.

Review of Jacques M. Downs, The Golden Ghetto: The American Community at Canton and the Shaping of American China Policy, 1784-1844 in Journal of Asian Studies 58, no. 1 [February 1999], pp. 159-161.

Review of Thomas N. Layton, The Voyage of the ‘Frolic’: New England Merchants and the Opium Trade in Journal of American History 85, no. 2 [September 1998], p. 663.

Review of Donald D. Johnson, The United States in the Pacific: Private Interests and Public Policies, 1784-1899 in The Journal of American-East Asian Relations [Chicago] 5, no. 1 [Spring 1996], pp. 106-07.

Review of Edward R. Beauchamp, ed. Schoolmaster to an Empire: Richard Henry Brunton in Meiji Japan, 1868-1876 in Journal of Third World Studies [Americus, GA] 9, no. 1 [Spring 1992], pp. 318-21.

Review of Curtis Henson, Commissioners and Commodores: The East India Squadron and American Diplomacy in China in The Journal of American History 69, no. 3 [December l982], pp. 702-03.

Review of “Round Eyes in the Middle Kingdom,” a film by Ronald Levaco. Association for Asian Studies, Education About Asia [Ann Arbor, MI] 5, no. 1 [Spring 2000], p. 76; Points East 15, no. 2 [July 2000], p. 17; Bulletin of the Igud Yotzei Sin [Tel Aviv] no. 364 [June-July 2000], p. 7.

SELECTED SCHOLARLY PAPERS ON EAST ASIAN HISTORY/ INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:

“Missionary Versus Atheist: James Curtis Hepburn and Edward Sylvester Morse as Foreign Technical Experts in Meiji Japan.” Japan Studies Association, Honolulu, January 7, 2000.

“Edward Sylvester Morse [1838-1925] as Expert and Western Observer in Meiji Japan.” Southern Japan Seminar, Panama City Beach, FL, October 17, 1992; International Congress for Asian and North African Studies, Hamburg, August 29, 1986.

“Pre- and Post-Opium War American Visual Imagery of China.” Academic Discussion Conference on the Opium War, Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, August 27, 1990.

“Indochina War on Campus: The Summit/Spicerack Controversy at the University of Pennsylvania, 1965-67.” Conference on “Cultural Effects of Vietnam,” Manchester [U.K.] Polytechnic, September 6, 1986; also presented at The Charles DeBenedetti Memorial Conference, University of Toledo, May 4, 1990.

“The Empress of China Bicentennial, American Decorative Arts, and Early American Idealization of China.” Association for Asian Studies, Bethlehem, PA, October 31, 1987.

“Cantonese Artifacts, Chinoiserie, and the Formation of an Early American Image of the Chinese.” National Conference on Chinese American Studies, San Francisco, 1980.

“The Decorative Arts of the Old China Trade and Their Influence in America up to 1846.” American Historical Association, San Francisco, December 28, 1978.

PUBLICATIONS IN JUDAIC STUDIES:

Publications in Judaic Studies: Books:

Goldstein, Jonathan, ed. and intro. The Jews of China. Volume One: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. Armonk, N.Y. and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. Electronic version: Boulder, CO: NetLibrary, 2000.

Goldstein, Jonathan, ed., intro., and one chapter, The Jews of China. Volume Two: A Sourcebook and Research Guide. Armonk, N.Y. and London: M. E. Sharpe, 2000. Electronic version: Boulder, Colo.: NetLibrary, 2000.

Goldstein, Jonathan, ed., intro., one chapter, and conclusion; principal author of bibliography. China and Israel, 1948-1998: A Fifty Year Retrospective. Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 1999.

Publications in Judaic Studies: Chapters in Books:

Goldstein, Jonathan. “The Sorkin and Golab Theses and Their Applicability to South, Southeast, and East Asian Port Jewry.” In David Cesarani, ed., Port Jews: Jewish Communities in Maritime Trading Centres, 1550-1950, pp. 179-196. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass Publishers, 2002; Jewish Culture and History [London] 4, no. 2 [Winter 2001], pp. 179-96.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “Lithuania Honours a Holocaust Rescuer” in Antony Polonsky, ed. Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry. Volume Fourteen: Focusing on Jews in the Polish Borderlands. Oxford, U.K. and Portland, OR: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001, pp. 249-55. For alternate versions of this chapter see: John K. Roth and Elisabeth Maxwell, eds., Remembering for the Future. The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide. Volume Two: Ethics and Religion, pp. 271-80. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave, 2001; Anna Blay, ed., Eshkolot: Essays in Memory of Rabbi Roland Lubofsky. Melbourne, Vic., Australia: Hybrid, 2002, pp. 128-33; AMIT [New York] 72, no. 2 [Spring 2000], pp. 42-44; Bulletin of the Igud Yotzei Sin no. 362 [February-March 2000], pp. 25-27; no. 364 [June-July 2000], pp. 9-11; Points East 14, no. 3 [November 1999], pp. 1, 5-7; The Jewish Georgian 10, no. 1 [November-December 1999], pp. 7-9.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “The Republic of China [ROC] and Israel, 1911-2003.” In Efraim Karsh, ed. Israel: The First Hundred Years. Volume Four: Israel and the World. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “Polish, Russian, and U.S. Consular Records from Shanghai About Jewish Refugees: an Interim Report.” In Jonathan Goldstein, ed., The Jews of China. Volume Two: A Sourcebook and Research Guide, pp. 152-54. Armonk, N. Y. and London: M. E. Sharpe, 2000 [see above]. Other versions in Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Newsletter [Cookeville, Tenn.] 24, no. 2 [June 1993], pp. 19-23; Bulletin of the Igud Yotzei Sin no. 342 [December 1995], pp. 10-11 and no. 328 [March-April 1993], pp. 14-15; Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy [Teaneck, NJ] 10, no. 2 [Summer 1994], pp. 23-24; and Points East 8, no 3 [October l993], pp. 14-15.

Other Scholarly Publications in Judaic Studies:

Goldstein, Jonathan. “The Republic of China and Israel, 1911-2003.” Israel Affairs [London] 10, nos. 1 and 2 [Autumn/Winter 2004], pp. 223-53.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “Did China Have a Jewish President?: Tracing the Liu Shaoqi [1898-1969] Saga.” Points East 18, no. 1 [March 2003], pp. 16-17; Bulletin of the Igud Yotsei Sin [Tel Aviv] no. 377 [September-October 2003], p. 31; The Virginia Review of Asian Studies [Staunton, VA] 5 [Fall 2003], pp. 165-68.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “Shimon Peres in Beijing.” The Virginia Review of Asian Studies 4 [Fall 2002].

Goldstein, Jonathan. “Shimon Peres’ Visit to Beijing in Historical Perspective.” Points East 17, no. 3 [November 2002].

Goldstein, Jonathan. “Einstein and Sino-Israeli Ups-and-Downs.” Points East 17, no. 3 [November, 2002], p. 4; alternate versions in The Carroll Star News [Carrollton, Georgia], August 11-17, 2002, pp. 7, 10, and Bangor Daily News, August 9, 2002, p. A13.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “Shimon Peres in Beijing.” The Virginia Review of Asian Studies 4 [Fall 2002], pp. 31-32. Alternate versions have appeared as “Shimon Peres’ Visit to Beijing in Historical Perspective.” Points East 17, no. 2 [July 2002], p. 4; The Jewish Georgian [Atlanta] 12, no. 5 [July-August 2002], p. 14; and “Shimon Peres in Beijing.” Bangor Daily News [Maine], April 5, 2002, p.A15.

Goldstein, Jonathan. “Mainer Helps Honor Father as Holocaust Rescuer.” Points East 16, no. 2 [July 2001], pp. 1, 7; The Jewish Georgian 11, no. 3 [March-April 2001], p. 6; Bulletin of the Igud Yotzei Sin no. 367 [March-April 2000], p. 17.

Review of Donald D. Leslie, Jews and Judaism in Traditional China: A Comprehensive Bibliography in Journal of Chinese Religions [Bloomington, IN] no. 27 [1999], pp. 191-92.

SELECTED SCHOLARLY PAPERS IN JUDAIC STUDIES:

“Harbin, Singapore, and Manila as Reference Points for Asian Jewish Identity.” Presented at the International Seminar oon the History and Culture of the Harbin Jews, Heilongjiang Academy of Social Sciences, Harbin, China, August 31, 2004.

“The State of Israel Was Reestablished in Munich, Not Jerusalem: Revisiting the Dan Diner Thesis.” Presented at conference on “Teaching the Holocaust: Implications for the 21^st Century,” Bates College, August 4, 2004.

“Attitudes and Policies of the Republic of China toward Zionism and Israel.” University of Haifa [Israel] seminar on “Israel and Asia in the International Community,” December 30, 2003.

“The Republic of China [ROC] and Israel, 1911-2003.” Presented at a panel on “”Challenges Facing China and Taiwan” at the American Association for Chinese Studies, Franklin College, Franklin, Indiana, October 25, 2003. Presented in an earlier format at the University of Oxford China Studies Seminar, May 29, 2003.

“China and Israel, 1903-2003: A One Hundred Year Retrospective.” Chabad Society, Worcester College, University of Oxford, September 7, 2003.

“Harbin and Singapore Jewry in Light of the Sorkin Thesis.” School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, February 12, 2003.

“Righteous Diplomats and the Jewish Exodus to the Far East: Ho, Zwartendijk, Sugihara.” Cape Town [South Africa] Holocaust Centre, January 13, 2003.

“Singapore, Manila, and Harbin as Reference Points for Asian ‘Port Jewish’ Identity.” The Jewish Historical Society of England, London, May 1, 2003 Presented in an earlier format at the conference “Port Jews and Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centres,” University of Cape Town, January 7, 2003.

“The Jews of India, China, and Japan: Comparative Perspectives.” School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, February 26, 2003; Florida International University, Miami, November 7, 2002; Southern Japan Seminar, Tulane University, New Orleans, November 3, 2001; Minsky lecture, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, October 9, 1997; University of Cape Town, September 10, 1996.

“The Jews of China: Kaifeng, Shanghai, and Harbin.” Presented at conference on “Religion in Today’s China,” Bridgewater [Mass.] State College, October 27, 2001.

“Overarching Theoretical Considerations in Examining the History of the Port Jews of India, China, and Japan.” Port Jews symposium, University of Southampton, U.K., June 28, 2001.

“The Republic of China and Israel, 1911-99.” David Patterson lecture, Oxford [U.K.] Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, March 11, 1999.

“The Jewish Communities of China.” Hamilton College, February 11, 1993.

ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS:

Revision of book China and Israel, l948-98 for publication in China in Chinese [anticipated date of completion: 2005].

Research for historical monograph comparing the Jewish communities of Bangkok, Harbin, Manila, Rangoon, Singapore and Surabaja as reference points for Asian Jewish identity [anticipated date of completion: 2006].

Research for historical monograph on Chinese Consul General Feng Shan Ho as a Holocaust rescuer in Vienna in 1938 [anticipated date of completion: 2006].