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The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China (2021) excerpt; Laytner, Anson, and Jordan Paper, The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng: A Millennium of Adaptation and Endurance (Lexington Books, 2017). Loewe, Michael (1988). "The Jewish Presence in Imperial China". Jewish Historical Studies. 30: 1– 20. JSTOR ...
Empty map: File:World map (Miller cylindrical projection, blank).svg; Some sources available on page Jews on the English Wikipedia; Number of Jews per country considering enlarged estimates: World Jewish Population in the World. Berman Jewish DataBank (2018). Retrieved on 22 June 2019. Author: Allice Hunter
Xun Zhou, a research fellow at SOAS expressed doubts about the authenticity of the Kaifeng community, arguing that it was a construct of Christian-driven Orientalism, [107] powered by the evangelical interests of James Finn and his two works on the question: The Jews in China (1843)) [108] and The Orphan Colony of Jews in China (1874). [109]
Lille Synagogue, France.An eclectic hybrid with Moorish, Romanesque, classical and Baroque elements, 1892. Synagogue of the Kaifeng Jewish community in China. The ark may be more or less elaborate, even a cabinet not structurally integral to the building or a portable arrangement whereby a Torah is brought into a space temporarily used for worship.
List of Jewish communities by country, including synagogues, organizations, yeshivas and congregations. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( December 2014 )
The frontispiece of Athanasius Kircher's 1667 China Illustrata, depicting the Jesuit founders Francis Xavier and Ignatius of Loyola adoring the monogram of Christ in Heaven while Johann Adam Schall von Bell and Matteo Ricci labor on the China mission "The Complete Map of the Myriad Countries" (Wanguo Quantu), Giulio Aleni's adaptation of Western geographic knowledge to Chinese cartographic ...
The Jewish population of Europe in 2010 was estimated to be approximately 1.4 million (0.2% of the European population), or 10% of the world's Jewish population. [6] In the 21st century, France has the largest Jewish population in Europe, [6] [10] followed by the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia and Ukraine. [10]
The Jewish History Resource Center, Project of the Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS; JewishDirectory.com; Worldwide directory of Chabad Centers; Images of synagogues in the archives of the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem