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Author: Anson H. Laytner Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 1498550274 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 291
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This scholarly collection examines the origins, history, and contemporary nature of Chinese Judaism in the community of Kaifeng. These essays, written by a diverse, international team of contributors, explore the culture and history of this thousand-year-old Jewish community, whose synthesis of Chinese and Jewish cultures helped guarantee its survival. Part I of this study analyzes the origin and historical development of the Kaifeng community, as well as the unique cultural synthesis it engendered. Part II explores the contemporary nature of this Chinese Jewish community, particularly examining the community’s relationship to Jewish organizations outside of China, the impact of Western Jewish contact, and the tenuous nature of Jewish identity in Kaifeng.
Author: Fook-Kong Wong Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004208100 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 232
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This comprehensive textual treatment of the Kaifeng Passover Rite is a significant contribution to the ongoing discussion as to the Community’s origins in particular and to comparative Jewish liturgy in general.
Author: Anson H. Laytner Publisher: ISBN: 9781498550260 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 290
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This collection examines the origins, history, and contemporary nature of Chinese Judaism in the community of Kaifeng. Among other topics, the contributors analyze the community's unique synthesis between Jewish and Chinese thought, the tenuous nature of its Jewish identity, and the impact of Western Jewish contact.
Author: Sidney Shapiro Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 308
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The accidental discovery in the 17th century of a Jewish community in the city of Kaifeng, and the findings there by Jesuit missionaries, marked the beginning of widespread interest in the subject of Jews in China. In the centuries that followed, Western Sinologists arrived in China and engaged in a variety of investigations. In the 1f980s, however, Sidney Shapiro, a former New York lawyer who has lived half a century in Beijing, felt that "there was a crying need to learn what the Chinese scholars themselves have to say about the history of Jews in China." With that in mind, he compiled the remarkable fruits of research conducted by Chinese social scientists, and edited and translated them into English. Jews in Old China was originally published by Hippocrene Books in 1984 with considerable success. It was then translated into Hebrew and published in Israel in 1987. This newly expanded edition offers a rich exposition, according to the Chinese investigations, on the origins of these Jewish migrants-when and why they came, the routes they followed, where they settled, and descriptions of their religious and social lives under the Hans, the Mongols, and the Manchus. This book provides a wealth of information about the conflicts, contributions, adaptation and ultimate assimilation of the Jews in China. It also introduces, from the Chinese perspective, the Radanites, the great medieval Jewish mercantile traders, who provided an important link between China and the West.
Author: Jordan Paper Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press ISBN: 9781554585670 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 175
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Explores the history of the Chinese Jews and how their theology's focus on love, rather than fear of a non-anthropomorphic God, may speak to contemporary liberal Jews. By the mid-eighteenth century--cut off from Judaism elsewhere, synagogues destroyed, their community impoverished and dispersed by a civil war--their Judaism became defunct.
Author: Roman Malek Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351566288 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 622
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The collection presents the proceedings of the international colloquium held in Sankt Augustin in 1997 and additional materials. The articles are written in English, German or Chinese (with English abstracts). The volume includes a general index with glossary.
Author: Xin Xu
Author: Xin Xu
Author: Anson H. Laytner
Author: Xin Xu
Author: Donald Leslie
Author: Fook-Kong Wong
Author: Donald Leslie
Author: Anson H. Laytner
Author: Sidney Shapiro
Author: Jordan Paper
Author: Roman Malek