The Jewish Historical Society of Hong Kong is a registered society licensed under the Societies Ordinance in the Hong Kong SAR.
The main objective of the Society is to promote a centre for the collection, study and preservation of historical materials relating to the history of the Jews and Judaism in Hong Kong and mainland China.
The JHS has published several volumes on the subject of the Jewish community in Hong Kong and the Jews in mainland China, in addition to promoting the spread of balanced knowledge about Judaic traditions in Chinese academic circles. This has included assisting with the establishment of a Jewish studies programme at Nanjing University and the publication of the world’s first Chinese language “Encyclopaedia Judaica”, copies of which are now in the libraries of almost every university throughout China.
香港猶太歷史學會是一個根據香港特區社團條例授權註冊的社團。
該協會主旨促進，研究與猶太人和猶太教在香港及中國大陸的相關歷史資料。
該協會出版，發表了一些關於香港的猶太社區和猶太人在中國大陸的書籍和學術論文。該協會還推動與中國學者傳播，交流有關猶太人的歷史，宗教和文化的客觀知識。這包括與南京大學合作建立了猶太研究計劃和出版世界上第一本中文“猶太百科全書”，現收藏於中國幾乎每所大學的圖書館。
該協會有一個圖書館，並舉辦與香港及區內猶太歷史有關的主題講座。該協會還組織猶太社區歷史之旅，如猶太公墓和猶太教堂。猶太人自從十九世紀已在香港居住，不少猶太家庭在香港有幾代人的歷史，猶太社區的許多成員都認為香港是他們的家。猶太公墓成立於1855年，目前的猶太教堂建於1901-1902。
香港猶太歷史學會繼1983年香港公務員陳瑞璋先生的一個演講後成立,陳先生的演講討論了猶太人在中國的歷史可追溯到公元8世紀(唐朝)。
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What’s New on Our Site
| Date Added | Subject |
| 26 January 2022 | We’re busy updating our burial records so that they will provide visitors with a better user experience. The improved pages will offer the images in a carousel format for easy viewing. |
| 26 December 2021 | More updates to our burial records and the family trees in Our Community section. The Ladies’ Recreation Club recently profiled community member Henry Steiner. They kindly allowed us to reproduce it here. Howard Elias provided us with the speech he gave at the 20th Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival’s Shabbat Dinner in 2019. You can read it in the Our Community section. |
| 1 February 2021 | More updates to our burial records and the family trees in the Our Community section. Update to the record of Leonard E. Ginsburg in our Jews Who Died in the Defence of Hong Kong section. The 1923 wedding photos of Laura Dunn and Maurice Cario have been added to our Recollections section. A number of recollections have been added too. A few former community members wrote in to tell us about the old Jewish Recreation Club. You can read their comments in our The Jewish Recreation Club in Photos section. We bid a fond goodbye and thanks to board members Frederick Mocatta and Annette Akman and welcomed new board members Yael Amit and Elyse Silverberg. |
| 7 April 2020 | More updates to our burial records and the family trees in the Our Community section. |
| 23 June 2019 | Mark your calendar now! Our September events are now posted in the Programmes section. |
| 28 May 2019 | The Leo Landau War Diary is presented in the Our Community section. Do you remember the old JRC? You can view the Jewish Recreation Club in Photos in the Our Community section. Do you have any recollections of your life in the Hong Kong Jewish community? You can now share them with us in the Our Community section. Learn about the history of the Hong Kong Mikvah in the Publications section. More updates to our burial records and the family trees in the Our Community section. |
| 14 February 2019 | Lots of updates to our burial records and the family trees in the Our Community section. Who was A.J. Raymond and whatever happened to him? Check out who were Ohel Leah Synagogue’s spiritual leaders over the years. Are you related to someone who is buried in our cemetery? Subscribe to our newsletter for family members and catch up on our back issues. |
| 8 November 2018 | Lots of updates to our burial records and the family trees in the Our Community section. David Morris Schrage has been added to our Jews Who Died in the Defence of Hong Kong section. Photos of the Jewish Cemetery After Typhoon Mangkhut in September 2018 have been added. |
| 23 April 2018 | Lots of updates to our burial records and the family trees in the Our Community section. New family trees have been added to the Our Community section including the Ezra-Levy-Raymond Family Tree, the Kadoorie-Gubbay-Mocatta-Judah Family Tree, and the Weill-Odell-Donnenberg-Dunn-Lyons-Odell-Cario-Komor Family Tree. |
| 26 December 2017 | Lots of updates to our burial records in the Our Community section. Several family trees have been added to the Our Community section including the Abraham-Mackenzie-Goldenberg Family Tree, the Elias-Hayim-Abraham Family Tree, the Ellis Family Tree, and Elias (Other) Family Trees. |
| 3 July 2017 | Lots of updates to our burial records in the Our Community section. The latest edition of Fresh From the Shelves is posted in the Judaica Library section. More images have been added to our Community Life Project page. Do you have anything to add? We bid a heartfelt goodbye and thanks to our organisation’s co-founder, S.J. Chan, who has retired. We welcomed new board member Garry Stein. |
| 27 March 2017 | Lots of updates to our burial records in the Our Community section. The latest edition of Fresh From the Shelves is posted in the Judaica Library section. More images have been added to our Community Life Project page. Do you have anything to add? We bid goodbye to board members Nigel Kat and Mark Ellison and welcomed new member Alan Landau. A link to the December 2016 RTHK Radio 3 interview, “From There to Here: Hong Kong’s Jewish Community”, has been included on the new Recordings & In Print page in the Publications section. |
| 28 November 2016 | A new page for Jews Who Are Buried In the Hong Kong Cemetery has been added to the Our Community section. |
| 4 November 2016 | A collection of photos of old Hong Kong taken by long-time community member Karel Weiss obm has been added to the Our Community section. |
| 31 August 2016 | The latest edition of Fresh From the Shelves is posted in the Judaica Library section. We’re starting to add images to our Community Life Project page. Do you have anything to add? |
| 22 August 2016 | All burial records are now online. |
| 8 August 2016 | The catalogue of our Sino-Judaic Collection can now be accessed through the Judaica Library section. |
| 21 June 2016 | Uploaded burial information for all the Jews who died in the defence of Hong Kong during WWII. |
| 16 June 2016 | Added a link to SCMP article on the Our Community page. |
| 1 June 2016 | Added Chinese text to the Home page. |
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