Protected Persons? The Baghdadi Jewish Diaspora, the British State, and the Persistence of Empire
Protected Persons? The Baghdadi Jewish Diaspora, the British State, and the Persistence of Empire
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2011
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S. A. Stein
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不仅仅是大约100名道士和道士的到场、中国管弦乐队的演奏、交换哀悼礼物、焚烧纸人以纪念死者的灵魂、参观者在家人的照片前磕头、用白色丝绸覆盖殡仪花园、3000多件礼物和5000名哀悼者的到来——甚至比令人震惊的事实还要多。无论是塞拉斯·亚伦·哈同 (Silas Aaron Hardoon) 的财富、声望还是国际化的历史，这场表面上是犹太葬礼上的死者手持筷子的蜡像吸引了国际媒体的注意力。 1 1931 年夏天，哈同去世时，他被称为上海最富有的外国人，拥有估计 1.5 亿美元的遗产。与同时代的其他年轻、富有创业精神的巴格达迪犹太人一样，哈同于 19 世纪末经印度来到中国。2 在加尔各答，他
MORE THAN THE PRESENCE of some 100 Taoist monks and priests, the performance of Chinese orchestras, the exchange of mourning gifts, the burning of paper figures in celebration of the spirit of the deceased, the kowtowing of visitors before pictures of the family, the draping of the funereal garden in white silk, the arrival of more than 3,000 gifts and 5,000 mourners—more, even, than the astonishing facts of Silas Aaron Hardoon’s fortune, prominence, or cosmopolitan history, it was the wax effigy of the dead man with chopsticks in hand at this ostensibly Jewish funeral that riveted the international press.1 When he died in the summer of 1931, Hardoon was called the richest foreigner in Shanghai, with an estate estimated at $150 million. Like other young, entrepreneurial Baghdadi Jewish men of his generation, Hardoon had made his way to China by way of India in the late nineteenth century.2 In Calcutta he