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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 29779835.
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 )
There were once synagogues in Ndola, Kitwe, and Mufulira, Zambia of the Copperbelt Region, but they are now African churches. Ndola's former synagogue, now used by the Catholic Church as offices, and they built a new prayer space for church services. In Kitwe, the former synagogue is today owned and operated by the Salvation Army.
Antisemitism in the People's Republic of China is a mostly 21st-century phenomenon and is complicated by the fact that there is little ground for antisemitism in China in historical sources. [1] [2] [3] In the 2020s, antisemitic conspiracy theories in China began to spread and intensify.
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
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 Wall Street Journal recently reported that Chinese companies Baidu (a search engine) and Alibaba (an e-commerce site) literally erased Israel from their maps.
Even as the majority of the Jewish people settled in the Holy Land, Europe, and America, some traveled East Asia and settled. Today, due to the increasing ease and decreasing price of communications and transportation, as well as other effects of globalization, the Jewish communities in China, Japan, and other places continue to grow.