The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng

A Millennium of Adaptation and Endurance

Anson H. Laytner, Jordan Paper (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

290 Seiten

2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498550284 (ISBN)

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This collection examines the origins, history, and contemporary nature of Chinese Judaism in the community of Kaifeng. Among other topics, the contributors analyze the community’s unique synthesis between Jewish and Chinese thought, the tenuous nature of its Jewish identity, and the impact of Western Jewish contact.

This scholarly collection examines the origins, history, and contemporary nature of Chinese Judaism in the community of Kaifeng. These essays, written by a diverse, international team of contributors, explore the culture and history of this thousand-year-old Jewish community, whose synthesis of Chinese and Jewish cultures helped guarantee its survival. Part I of this study analyzes the origin and historical development of the Kaifeng community, as well as the unique cultural synthesis it engendered. Part II explores the contemporary nature of this Chinese Jewish community, particularly examining the community’s relationship to Jewish organizations outside of China, the impact of Western Jewish contact, and the tenuous nature of Jewish identity in Kaifeng.

Anson H. Laytner is former president of the Sino-Judaic Institute and the author of Arguing with God: A Jewish Tradition. Jordan Paper is professor emeritus of East Asian and religious studies at York University and author of The Theology of the Chinese Jews, 1000–1850.

Introduction, Jordan Paper and Anson Laytner
Part I: Past
Chapter 1: Radhanites, Chinese Jews, and the Silk Road of the Steppes, Nigel Thomas
Chapter 2: Eight Centuries in the Chinese Diaspora: The Jews of Kaifeng, Erik Zürcher
Chapter 3: Kaifeng Jews: Sinification and the Persistence of Identity and History, Irene Eber
Chapter 4: The Confucianization of the Chinese Jews: Interpretations of the Kaifeng Stelae Inscriptions, Andrew H. Plaks
Chapter 5: The Old Testament and Biblical Figures in Chinese Sources, Donald Daniel Leslie
Chapter 6: The Issue of the Jewishness of Chinese Jewish Magistrates, Jordan Paper
Chapter 7: Zhao Yingcheng from Fact to Fiction: The Story of “The Great Advisor,” Moshe Yehuda Bernstein
Part II: Present
Chapter 8: A History of Early Jewish Interactions with the Kaifeng Jews, Alex Bender
Chapter 9: Delving into the Israelite Religion of Kaifeng: The Patriotic Scholar Shi Jingxun and his Study of the Origins of the Plucking the Sinews Sect of Henan, Xianyi Kong
Chapter 10:

Erscheinungsdatum	18.04.2018
Co-Autor	Alex Bender, Moshe Yehuda Bernstein, Irene Eber
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 220 mm
Gewicht	435 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781498550284 / 9781498550284
Zustand	Neuware