Emily or Emma Sadka was an Iraqi-Singaporean historian and researcher specialising in the Political History of the Malayan region, which she taught at the University of Malaya and in Australian universities.
14 Facts About Emily Sadka
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Emily Sadka was the grandniece of Moshe Sadka, the Chief Rabbi of Baghdad, and the cousin of Singapore Chief Minister, David Marshall.
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Emily Sadka studied at the Raffles Girls' School from 1928 to 1935, then joined the special Scholarship Class at Raffles Institute, in 1935, at the age of 16.
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Emily Sadka was underage for the examination at that time and sat again the following year.
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Emily Sadka had been the first Jewish woman to have won this scholarship.
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Emily Sadka learnt Russian and the Scandinavian languages and in 1942, won a Carnegie Grant to carry out research in Soviet Administration in the former Czarist colonies of Central Asia.
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Emily Sadka had served on the committee of the International Youth Centre in London.
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Emily Sadka joined the University of Malaya as Assistant Lecturer in August 1951.
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Emily Sadka believed that Hugh Low, third British resident at Perak, was "one of the greatest of Malaya's administrators," but noted that he had been neglected by writers of Malayan history, with only passing references made in the notes made by Swettenham and Winstedt.
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Emily Sadka worked on deciphering, and transcribing and correcting the text of this manuscript.
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Emily Sadka was, at that time, preparing a thesis on The Residential System of Government in the States of Malaya from 1874 to 1895.
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Emily Sadka was awarded a research scholarship at the National Australian University in 1954.
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Emily Sadka had been recruited by Jim Davidson, Professor of Pacific History at the Research School of Pacific Studies as one of the Australian National University's first doctoral candidates.
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Emily Sadka began her teaching of Southeast Asian History in New Zealand as Assistant Lecturer at the Victoria University of Wellington.