Legends Of The Chinese Jews Of Kaifeng

Author : Xin Xu
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780881255287
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng written by Xin Xu and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even today there are people in Kaifeng who remain aware of their ancestry and register as Jews on official census forms.

Author : Xin Xu
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780881257915
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jews of Kaifeng, China written by Xin Xu and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Xin Xu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng written by Xin Xu and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald Leslie
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004645292
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Survival of the Chinese Jews: The Jewish Community of Kaifeng written by Donald Leslie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anson H. Laytner
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498550274
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng written by Anson H. Laytner and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Donald Leslie
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004034136
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Survival of the Chinese Jews written by Donald Leslie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tiberiu Weisz
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595373402
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kaifeng Stone Inscriptions written by Tiberiu Weisz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Points East, A Publication of the Sino-Judaic Institute, Vol. 23 No. 2, July 2008 The Covenant and the Mandate of Heaven: An In-depth Comparative Cultural Study of Judaism and China. By Tiberiu Weisz (iUniverse, 2007) Reviewed by Vera Schwarcz, Director/Chair, Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University, CT. This is, simply put, a bold visionary book. It invites readers to contemplate distant and disparate events and thinkers in a way that weaves a common tapestry. The author is generous minded, erudite and provides readers with all the information needed for this cross-cultural journey. The challenge of this adventure remains daunting nonetheless. Kang Youwei's words to Guangxu emperor in 1898 (quoted by Weisz on p 177) apply to reading this book as well: It is indeed like climbing a tree to seek fish - tough, but not foolish. In the end, the reward in understanding both Chin and Judaism is immense. Tiberiu Weisz is not a newcomer to cross cultural dialogues. With origins stretching back to Transylvania (like myself), he is familiar with the mixtures of languages and religions from back home. A long time scholar of the Kaifeng stones inscriptions and of the Jewish communities of ancient China, he was well prepared for a more wide ranging inquiry into the similarities between Chinese and Jews. To his great credit, Tiberiu Weisz took a full decade to assemble and re-translate key original documents from each of these different traditions in order to show a compelling complementarity between them. In the preface to The Covenant and The Mandate, he confesses trepidation at the scope of his inquiry. This is understandable since Weisz' book ranges from the ancient Liji and Tanach to the Cultural Revolution and the Holocaust. Even if one does not fully agree with author's conclusion that Judaism is the yang to China's yin -there is much in this important work to challenge, and to enrich, a wide variety of readers. The focus throughout this carefully constructed book is upon similarities that never quite devolve into a forced identity between Chinese and Jewish cultural values. Starting with ideas of holiness embodied in Elohim and Shangdi, Weisz invites readers to follow the travels of Lao Zi beyond the pass. Whether the Chinese and Jewish commitment to the one force underlying all natural phenomena or shared understanding of benevolent kingship can be traced to news of Solomon's rule spreading through Central Asia is not, in my view, the central question. Rather what is most startling in this book is a symmetry of historical experiences that does indeed lead Chinese and Jews to become experts in cultural survival. Weisz' study goes beyond our current understanding of Chinese and Jewish traditions as the two oldest, uninterrupted cultures in the world. Many previous works (including my own Bridges Across Broken Times: Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory) have circled this theme. What is fresh, and important in The Covenant and The Mandate, is the detailed, textual proof of exactly how Chinese and Jews confronted historical catastrophe and survived with renewed vigor. Three key moments, Weisz argues, defined and shaped Jewish and Chinese worldviews. For Jews, the exile to Babylon in 586-516 BCE, the expulsion from Spain in 1492 and the 20th century Holocaust provided fiery moments for self-definition and renewal. For Chinese, it was the imperial unification in 221 BCE, the Mongol conquest (1279-1368) and the more recent Cultural Revolution that challenged Confucianism and led to a new nationalist consciousness. Each of these events (as well as many others) is discussed at length and documented in terms of the thought-legacy that it provided for two civilizations growing more and more skilful in adaptation and survival. Weisz' analytical paradigm is most effective when he creatively juxtaposes important thinkers who are rarely considered side by side. For me, reading about the Han Dynasty poet-statesmen Han Yu alongsi

Author : Fook-Kong Wong
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004208097
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Haggadah of the Kaifeng Jews of China written by Fook-Kong Wong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes full text of the Hebrew/Aramaic and Judeo-Persian Haggadah in Hebrew characters, with English translation and commentary.

Author : Roman Malek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351566288
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Kaifeng to Shanghai written by Roman Malek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sui-jeung Chan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jews in Kaifeng written by Sui-jeung Chan and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: