ISBN:
9780765601032
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (347 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Jews of China: v. 1: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
DDC:
305.892/4051
Abstract:
This interdisciplinary study examines patterns of migration, acculturation, assimilation and economic activity of successive waves of Jewish arrivals in China from approximately AD 1100 to 1949
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Historical Introduction; I. The Kaifeng Experience; A. Assimilation and Acculturation; 1. The Synagogue at Kaifeng: Sino-Judaic Architecture of the Diaspora; 2. Kaifeng Jews: The Sinification of ldentity; 3. The Confucianization of the Kaifeng Jews: Interpretations of the Kaifeng Stelae Inscriptions; B. Western Response; 1. The Revelation of a Jewish Presence in Seventeenth-Century China: Its Impact on Westem Messianic Thought
Description / Table of Contents:
2. Memories of Kaifeng's Jewish Descendants Today: Historical Significance in Light of Observations by Westerners Since 1605C. Comparisons with Indian Jewry; 1. The Kaifeng Jews and India's Bene Israel: Different Paths; 2. Cochin Jews and Kaifeng Jews: Reflections on Caste, Surname, "Community," and Conversion; 3. The Judaisms of Kaifeng and Cochin: Parallels and Divergences; II. Nineteenth-Century Baghdadi and Ashkenazi Experiences in India, China, and Japan; A. Baghdadi Jews in India and China in the Nineteenth Century: A Comparison of Economic Roles
Description / Table of Contents:
B. The Shanghai-Nagasaki Judaic Connection, 1859-1924III. Twentieth-Century Baghdadi and Ashkenazi Experiences; A. Urban Profiles: Hong Kong; 1. Environmental Interactions of the Jews of Hong Kong; B. Urban Profiles: Harbin; 1. The Construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway and the Origins of the Harbin Jewish Community, 189-1931; 2. Harbin's Jewish Community, 189-1958: Politics, Prosperity, and Adversity; C. Occupational Profiles: Shanghai; 1. Silas Aaron Hardoon and Cross-Cultural Adaptation in Shanghai; 2. Jews and the Musical Life of Shanghai
Description / Table of Contents:
3. Jewish Musicians in Shanghai: Bridging Two CulturesD. Zionism, the Holocaust, and the Sino-Judaic Exodus; 1. The Shanghai Zionist Association and the International Politics of East Asia Until 1936; 2. Zionism and Zionist-Revisionism in Shanghai, 1937-1949; 3. Who Can See a Miracle? The Language of Jewish Memory in Shanghai; Concluding Essay Jews and China: Past and Present Encounters; Contributors
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