Hong Kong

Kadoorie-era Sephardi founding (Ohel Leah, 1901) plus a contemporary international community.

Modern locality anchor

Hong Kong

China (Hong Kong SAR) · City · 22.3°N 114.2°E

This anchor orients the sourced locality record. It is not a reconstructed historical position or border; the single map below provides geographic context.

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Where is Hong Kong?

Land geometry: Natural Earth 1:50m via world-atlas. Pins mark modern localities or representative regional anchors stored on Atlas place records, not historical borders and not reconstructed positions. · Sources & methods

THE COMMUNITY TIMELINE · EVERY NODE DATED

What happened to the Jewish community of Hong Kong?

1901–1997

Sephardi founding era (Ohel Leah, 1901)

1997–present

International business-era growth

Today

Small international community.

LANGUAGES & COMMUNITY

What did Hong Kong sound like?

Hebrew (עברית, Ivrit)

AFTER · IN FULL COLOR

What survives today?

In Hong Kong

Small international community.

Ohel Leah Synagogue
synagogue · historic site
Built 1901.
Hong Kong Holocaust & Tolerance Centre
museum · museum

SOURCES & REVIEW

Vital Statistics: Jewish Population of the World (2024 country figures)
Jewish Virtual Library · 2024 · open source
Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed. (place entry)
Macmillan Reference USA · 2007

Reviewed 2026-07-30

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