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Author : Xin Xu,Beverly Friend
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0881255289
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 : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:966131135
Author : Xin Xu
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0881257915
Author : Donald Leslie
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004645295
Author : Anson H. Laytner,Jordan Paper
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498550277
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
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9004034137
Author : Tiberiu Weisz
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780595373406
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 : Roman Malek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351566285
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 : Michael Pollak
Publisher : Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015005916369
1932 2nd may be paperback check ISBN.
Author : Anson H. Laytner,Jordan Paper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1498550266
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 : Fook-Kong Wong,Dalia Yasharpour
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004208094
Includes full text of the Hebrew/Aramaic and Judeo-Persian Haggadah in Hebrew characters, with English translation and commentary.
Author : M. Patricia Needle
Publisher : China Center University of Minnesota
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050274524
Author : Sui-jeung Chan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015021922649
Author : Jonathan Goldstein,Frank Joseph Shulman
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0765601036
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.
Author : Peter Kupfer
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Jews
ISBN : 3631575335
This volume summarizes the results of a research project organized at Mainz University in Germersheim, Germany. It focused on the Jewish community in Kaifeng in China (12th to 19th century). In recent years, increasing research has been done about the history and culture of the Jews in China, and in the future, more academic interest in all questions connected with it can be expected. Main topics are the perception of Chinese Judaism in European history as well as in Chinese society itself, the self-image of the descendants in Kaifeng and their present status in China, and how China deals with foreign ethnics and religions as part of its own history and identity. These topics were discussed from various interdisciplinary points of view. The authors from Australia, China, Hong Kong, Israel, Great Britain, France, and Germany are prominent sino-judaists who present their latest results of research in the light of new facts and approaches.
