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Kaifeng Jews (Chinese: 開封猶太人; pinyin: Kāifēng Yóutàirén; Hebrew: יהדות קאיפנג, romanized: Yahădūt Qāʾyfeng) are a small community of descendants of Chinese Jews in Kaifeng, in the Henan province of China. In the early centuries of their settlement, they may have numbered around 2,500 people. [3]
According to an oral tradition dictated by Xu Xin, Director of the Centre for Judaic Studies at Nanjing University, in his book Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng, the Kaifeng Jews called Judaism Yīcìlèyè jiào (一賜樂業教), lit. the religion of Israel.
He is editor of the Chinese edition of Encyclopaedia Judaica (Shanghai: The Shanghai People's Publishing House, 1993), Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng (with Beverly Friend, KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 1995), Anti-Semitism: How and Why (Shanghai Shanlian Books, 1996), A History of Western Culture (Peking University Press, 2002), and The ...
Professor Donald Daniel Leslie (b. 1 July 1922, d. 27 March 2020 (aged 97)) [1] [2] was a British-born Australian historian, especially known for his work on the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng, his books The Survival of the Chinese Jews (1972) and Les juifs de Chine (1980; co-authored with Joseph Dehergne), bringing the community to broader Western attention, through his 'unique expertise' in Hebrew ...
- In the book, The Kaifeng Stone Inscriptions: The Legacy of the Jewish Community in Ancient China (ISBN 0-59-537340-2), Mr. Tiberiu Weiz, a teacher of Hebrew history and Chinese religion, presents his own translations of the 1489, 1512, and 1663 stone steles left by the descendents of the Kaifeng Jews. (These steles were left to preserve their ...
Kaifeng is known for having the oldest extant Jewish community in China, the Kaifeng Jews. It also has a significant Muslim enclave and is notable for its many women's mosques (nǚsì), including the oldest nǚsì in China: Wangjia Hutong Women's Mosque, which dates to 1820. [26]
As the Chinese New Year struck on Feb. 10, 2024, Zoe and Yifan stood under a Jewish chuppah of Chinese talismans and lanterns, wrapped in a Jewish prayer shawl (tallit), and were married. After ...
In Studies of the Chinese Jews: Selections from Journals East and West, compiled by Hyman Kublin. New York: Paragon Book Reprint Corp., 1971 — The Survival of the Chinese Jews: The Jewish Community of Kaifeng. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1972; Mandarins, Jews, and Missionaries: The Jewish Experience in the Chinese Empire. Philadelphia, 1980.