The Jews of China: Historical and comparative perspectives

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Jonathan Goldstein, Frank Joseph Shulman
M.E. Sharpe, 1999 - History - 338 pages
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.
 

Contents

A Chinese Research on Jewish Diasporas in China
3
B An Investigation of the Date of Jewish Settlement in Kaifeng
14
New Trends and Achievements in Chinese Research on Ancient
26
An Overview of Chinese Impressions of and Attitudes
33
A Womans Eyewitness Report
49
B The Relations Between the Western European Refugees
57
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85
Yosef Tekoah
98
F From Berlin to Tianjin
110
A Cemeteries of the Kaifeng Jews
123
The Evidence
135
Polish Russian and U S Consular Records from Shanghai
152
Contributors
185
Index
189
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