The Jews of China: v. 2: A Sourcebook and Research Guide

by Goldstein,Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780765601056
• ISBN10: 0765601052
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-11-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

An impressive interdisciplinary effort by Chinese, Japanese, Middle Eastern, and Western Sinologists and Judiac studies specialists, this book scrutinizes patterns of migration, acculturation, assimilation, and economic activity of successive waves of Jewish arrivals in China from approximately A.D. 1100 to 1949. While Jewish individuals and communities in China have been described in microhistorical, antiquarian, or nostalgic fashion, they have never been contrasted as a whole with other Jewish Diaspora communities. Volume I Historical and Comparative Perspectives was published in Fall 1998.

Table of Contents

The Sino-Judaic Bibliographic Tradition: An Introduction and Overview	vii
Jonathan Goldstein
Traditional Chinese Awareness of Jews
Chinese Research on Jewish Diasporas in China	3	(11)
Xu Xin
An Investigation of the Date of Jewish Settlement in Kaifeng	14	(12)
Wei Qianzhi
Roger Des Forges
New Trends and Achievements in Chinese Research on Ancient Chinese Jews	26	(7)
Wang Yisha
Albert E. Dien
An Overview of Chinese Impressions of and Attitudes Toward Jews Before 1949	33	(16)
Xiao Xian
Memoirs
Shanghai: A Woman's Eyewitness Report	49	(8)
Illo L. Heppner
The Relations Between the Western European Refugees and the Shanghai Resident Jews: A Personal Memoir	57	(13)
Ernest G. Heppner
Growing Up Jewish in Manchuria in the 1930s: Personal Vignettes	70	(15)
Alexander Menquez (pseud.)
On Being a Jew in China: A Personal Memoir	85	(13)
Israel Epstein
My Developmental Years in China: Yosef Tekoah	98	(12)
Steve Hochstadt
From Berlin to Tianjin	110	(13)
Heinz Dawid
Research Guides
Cemeteries of the Kaifeng Jews	123	(4)
Phyllis Horal
The Hebrew University's Research Project on Jewish Communities in Modern China	127	(8)
Irene Eber
New Information on Shanghai Jewish Refugees: The Evidence of the Shanghai Municipal Police Files, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.	135	(17)
Marcia R. Ristaino
Polish, Russian, and U.S. Consular Records from Shanghai About Jewish Refugees: An Interim Report	152	(5)
Jonathan Goldstein
Bibliography
The Chinese Jews and the Jewish Diasporas in China from the Tang Period (A.D. 618--906) through the Mid-1990s: A Selected Bibliography	157	(28)
Frank Joseph Shulman
Contributors	185	(4)
Index	189