1. NEB Ezra founded the Shanghai Zionist Association in 1903 and its official newspaper, Israel's Messenger, one of China's oldest and most sophisticated Jewish periodicals.
10 Facts About NEB Ezra
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NEB Ezra served as editor-in-chief of the newspaper for more than 30 years until his death in 1936.
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Nissim Elias Benjamin NEB Ezra was a Baghdadi Jew born in Lahore, British India, and settled in Shanghai, China.
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NEB Ezra served as Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper for more than 30 years until his death in 1936.
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NEB Ezra served as the main leader of the Shanghai Zionist Association, which had about 100 members in March 1905, for many years.
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On 5 December 1936, NEB Ezra died of heart disease in Shanghai.
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NEB Ezra held a pessimistic view of the West, at a time when Europe was dominated by the regimes in Germany and Russia, which were responsible for widespread human rights abuses.
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NEB Ezra saw the East a refuge of humanity, and pleaded for a new Buddha, who, like Moses, Confucius, Jesus, and Mohammed, would save the world from the threat of tyranny.
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On 15 September 1933, NEB Ezra wrote a letter to Mamoru Shigemitsu and proposed to resettle the European Jews persecuted by Nazi Germany in Manchukuo.
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NEB Ezra wrote to Israel Cohen, secretary of the World Zionist Organization in London, for support.