Historical and comparative perspectives
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Historical and comparative perspectives
(An East gate book)(The Jews of China, v. 1)
M.E. Sharpe, c1999
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
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Includes bibliogrphical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Part I: The Kaifeng Experience
- A: Assimilation and Acculturation
- Chapter I.A.1: The Synagogue at Kaifeng: Sino-Judaic Architecture of the Diaspora
- Chapter I.A.2: Kaifeng Jews: The Sinification of Identity
- Chapter I.A.3: The Confucianization of the Kaifeng Jews: Interpretations of the Kaifeng Stelae Inscriptions
- B: Western Response
- Chapter I.B.1: The Revelation of a Jewish Presence in Seventeenth-Century China: Its Impact on Western Messianic Thought
- Chapter I.B.2: Memories of Kaifeng's Jewish Descendants Today: Historical Significance in Light of Observations by Westerners Since 1605
- C: Comparisons with Indian Jewry
- Chapter I.C.1: The Kaifeng Jews and India's Bene Israel: Different Paths
- Chapter I.C.2: Cochin Jews and Kaifeng Jews: Reflections on Caste, Surname, "Community," and Conversion
- Chapter I.C.3: The Judaisms of Kaifeng and Cochin: Parallels and Divergences
- Part II: Nineteenth-Century Baghdadi and Ashkenazi Experiences in India, China, and Japan
- Chapter II.A: Baghdadi Jews in India and China in the Nineteenth Century: A Comparison of Economic Roles
- Chapter II.B: The Shanghai-Nagasaki Judaic Connection, 1859-1924
- Part III: Twentieth-Century Baghdadi and Ashkenazi Experiences
- A: Urban Profiles: Hong Kong
- Chapter III.A.1: Environmental Interactions of the Jews of Hong Kong
- B: Urban Profiles: Harbin
- Chapter III.B.1: The Construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway and the Origin of the Harbin Jewish Community, 1898-1931
- Chapter III.B.2: Harbin's Jewish Community, 1898-1958: Politics, Prosperity, and Adversity
- C: Occupational Profiles: Shanghai
- Chapter III.C.1: Silas Aaron Hardoon and Cross-Cultural Adaptation in Shanghai
- Chapter III.C.2: Jews and the Musical Life of Shanghai
- Chapter III.C.3: Jewish Musicians in Shanghai: Bridging Two Cultures
- D: Zionism, the Holocaust, and the Sino-Judaic Exodus
- Chapter III.D.1: The Shanghai Zionist Association and the International Politics of East Asia Until 1936
- Chapter III.D.2: Zionism and Zionist-Revisionism in Shanghai, 1937-1949
- Chapter III.D.3: Who Can See a Miracle? The Language of Jewish Memory in Shanghai
- Concluding Essay
- Jews and China: Past and Present Encounters
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