Author: Jordan Paper
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554584035
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 175
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A thousand years ago, the Chinese government invited merchants from one of the Chinese port synagogue communities to the capital, Kaifeng. The merchants settled there and the community prospered. Over centuries, with government support, the Kaifeng Jews built and rebuilt their synagogue, which became perhaps the world’s largest. Some studied for the rabbinate; others prepared for civil service examinations, leading to a disproportionate number of Jewish government officials. While continuing orthodox Jewish practices they added rituals honouring their parents and the patriarchs, in keeping with Chinese custom. However, by the mid-eighteenth century—cut off from Judaism elsewhere for two centuries, their synagogue destroyed by a flood, their community impoverished and dispersed by a civil war that devastated Kaifeng—their Judaism became defunct. The Theology of the Chinese Jews traces the history of Jews in China and explores how their theology’s focus on love, rather than on the fear of a non-anthropomorphic God, may speak to contemporary liberal Jews. Equally relevant to contemporary Jews is that the Chinese Jews remained fully Jewish while harmonizing with the family-centred religion of China. In an illuminating postscript, Rabbi Anson Laytner underscores the point that Jewish culture can thrive in an open society, “without hostility, by absorbing the best of the dominant culture and making it one’s own.”
Author: Roman Malek
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351566296
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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The collection presents the proceedings of the international colloquium held in Sankt Augustin in 1997 and additional materials. The articles are written in English, German or Chinese (with English abstracts). The volume includes a general index with glossary.
Author: James Finn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Author: S. M. Perlmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Author: Fook-Kong Wong
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004208097
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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Includes full text of the Hebrew/Aramaic and Judeo-Persian Haggadah in Hebrew characters, with English translation and commentary.
Author: Michael Pollak
Publisher: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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1932 2nd may be paperback check ISBN.
Author: Michael Pollak
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780756767310
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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This fascinating book on the history of Chinese Jews reads like an adventure story, crisscrossing geographic locations & transcending ages. Michael Pollak has sniffed out every available clue on the Chinese Jews: his research is solid & well documented. Beyond the confines of Jewish history, this saga sheds much light on China's past & especially its treatment of minorities. This new edition includes a new preface that assembles & evaluates the data that have come to the fore with regard to the once flourishing Jewish communities of old China, particularly that of Kaifeng, in the years since 1979, when the original manuscript of this book was completed; & to correct a number of errors. Numerous illustrations. Bibliography.
