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In an overview of the place of Kaifeng Jews within the broader context of Jewish history, Simon Schama notes its exceptionality to the tragic diffidence of host societies to Jewish settlements:- To survey the predicament of Jews in much of the rest of the world is to marvel at what the Kaifeng community escaped.
According to an oral tradition which was documented 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. Yīcìlèyè is a transliteration and partial translation of ...
After this disaster, the city was abandoned. The synagogue of the Kaifeng Jewish community (reportedly dating from 1163) was destroyed, and the Jews took refuge on the north side of the Yellow River. They took with them the Torah scrolls, which had been saved after having been thrown into the river, though they had grown moldy and illegible.
Jews: 猶太 (Yóutài) Kaifeng: 7th century to present, many Jews have very much assimilated into Hui people after converting to Islam. The Nanjing and Beijing Jews became Muslims [28] At the start of the 20th century the Zhang Kaifeng Jewish family became Muslims. [29] [30] Muslim men married Jewish women. [31] Some Jews adopted non-Jewish sons.
By the time of the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, few if any native Chinese Jews were known to have maintained the practice of their religion and culture. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, however, some international Jewish groups have helped Chinese Jews rediscover their heritage. [citation needed]
Donald Daniel Leslie (() 1 July 1922-27 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 and Chinese. [4]
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