Manadarins, Jews and Missionaries
Manadarins, Jews and Missionaries

Author: Michael Pollak

Publisher:

Published: 2003-07

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780756767310

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This fascinating book on the history of Chinese Jews reads like an adventure story, crisscrossing geographic locations & transcending ages. Michael Pollak has sniffed out every available clue on the Chinese Jews: his research is solid & well documented. Beyond the confines of Jewish history, this saga sheds much light on China's past & especially its treatment of minorities. This new edition includes a new preface that assembles & evaluates the data that have come to the fore with regard to the once flourishing Jewish communities of old China, particularly that of Kaifeng, in the years since 1979, when the original manuscript of this book was completed; & to correct a number of errors. Numerous illustrations. Bibliography.

Jews in the Early Modern World
Jews in the Early Modern World

Author: Dean Phillip Bell

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780742545182

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Jews in the Early Modern World presents a comparative and global history of the Jews for the early modern period, 1400-1700. It traces the remarkable demographic changes experienced by Jews around the globe and assesses the impact of those changes on Jewish communal and social structures, religious and cultural practices, and relations with non-Jews.

The Jews of China: Historical and comparative perspectives
The Jews of China: Historical and comparative perspectives

Author: Jonathan Goldstein

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780765601032

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An impressive interdisciplinary effort by Chinese, Japanese, Middle Eastern, and Western Sinologists and Judaic Studies specialists, these books scrutinize patterns of migration, acculturation, assimilation, and economic activity of successive waves of Jewish arrivals in China from approximately A.D.1100 to 1949.

The Jewish Bishop and the Chinese Bible
The Jewish Bishop and the Chinese Bible

Author: Irene Eber

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9789004112667

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Provides new and fascinating information about a major 19th century Bible translator, S.I.J. Schereschewsky, the early years of the Episcopal mission in China, his translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew into northern vernacular Chinese and its Chinese reception.

The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng
The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng

Author: Anson H. Laytner

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2017-07-21

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1498550274

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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.

The Jews of China
The Jews of China

Author: Jonathan Goldstein

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

Published: 1998-12-04

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780765636317

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An impressive interdisciplinary effort by Chinese, Japanese, Middle Eastern, and Western Sinologists and Judaic Studies specialists, these books scrutinize patterns of migration, acculturation, assimilation, and economic activity of successive waves of Jewish arrivals in China from approximately A.D.1100 to 1949. While Jewish individuals and communities in China have been described in microhistorical, antiquarian, or nostalgic fashion, they have never been contrasted as a whole and in a scholarly way with other Jewish Diaspora communities.