From a Colonial Settlement to a New Identity: The Rise, Fall and Reemergence of the Jewish Community in Indonesia

Leonard Chrysostomos Epafras; Rotem Kowner

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From a Colonial Settlement to a New Identity: The Rise, Fall and Reemergence of the Jewish Community in Indonesia

Leonard Chrysostomos Epafras, Rotem Kowner

Department of Asian Studies

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This chapter explores the life of Jews in Indonesia before and after its independence. Emerging in the nineteenth century, the local Jewish community thrived in small and remote settlements under the rule of Dutch colonialism and reached its apex in 1941 with the influx of European refugees. Many of the Jews were detained during the Japanese occupation and following the country’s independence, the vast majority of them migrated to other countries. Since the Reformation era (1998 onward), however, Indonesia has witnessed the emergence of new Jewish identification whose leaders and motives the chapter examines.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Jewish Communities in Modern Asia: Their Rise, Demise and Resurgence
Editors	Rotem Kowner
Place of Publication	Cambridge
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	163-185
Number of pages	23
ISBN (Print)	9781009162586
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009162609.011
State	Published - 2023

Keywords

Asian Jews
Dutch East Indies
Dutch colonialism
Indonesia
Japanese occupation
Jewish communities in Asia
Jewish modern history
Southeast Asia
World War II
modern Asian history

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From a Colonial Settlement to a New Identity: The Rise, Fall and Reemergence of the Jewish Community in Indonesia. / Epafras, Leonard Chrysostomos; Kowner, Rotem.
Jewish Communities in Modern Asia: Their Rise, Demise and Resurgence. ed. / Rotem Kowner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. p. 163-185.

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