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The history of the Jews in China goes back to ancient times.Modern-day Jews in China are predominantly composed of Sephardic Jews and their descendants. Other Jewish ethnic divisions are also represented, including Ashkenazi Jews, Mizrahi Jews and a number of converts to Judaism.
See also History of the Jews in India and History of the Jews in China for pre-Roman (and post-) diasporic populations. King Agrippa I , in a letter to Caligula , enumerated among the provinces of the Jewish diaspora almost all the Hellenized and non-Hellenized countries of the Orient.
Two Chinese scholars have argued that the Jews went to China in 998, because the Song History records that in the year 998, a monk (僧) named Ni-wei-ni (你尾尼; Nǐ wěi ní) and others had spent seven years traveling from India to China in order to pay homage to the Song Emperor Zhenzong. They identified this Ni-wei-ni as a Jewish rabbi.
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The Jewish presence in South Korea effectively began with the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950. At this time a large number of Jewish soldiers, including the chaplain Chaim Potok, came to the Korean Peninsula. Today the Jewish community is very small and limited to the Seoul Metropolitan Area. [1] There have been very few Korean converts to ...
He has led numerous Jewish heritage tours from the US, Israel, the Great Britain, Australia, Canada, and France to Jewish sites in China including Kaifeng (with its biblical history), Harbin (where Jews fled the Russian pogroms at the turn of the 20th century) and Shanghai (where Jews fled the Nazi Holocaust). In addition, he has run three-week ...
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