בידספיריט | China: Harbin ”Jewish Music-Drama Society”

China: Harbin ”Jewish Music-Drama Society” copper token (ND), c. 1910s-1920's; no marker marks; 27mm, 8.05g. Obv.: Russian leg. ”Jew[ish] Mus[ical]-Dramat[ic] Society Harbin”, w/ 2 Chinese chars. in center. Rev.: crowned figure w/ lyre; Russian leg. ”Czar [King] David” - possibly the society's name. Russian lettering on rev. written right-to-left like Hebrew. In AU w/luster & toning. Jews turned Harbin into ”Paris of Orient”; Jewish cultural club known by acronym ” Yilmadag ”, similar on this token & may be connected to Jew Joseph Kaspe , owner of 'Hotel Moderne', which hosted many of Harbin's cultural events (son, Simon, was gifted piantist; kidnapped & murdered by anti-Semitic white-Russians 1933).