Jews in China

Author: Pan Guang
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Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: This book is compiled by Professor Pan Guang, a distinguished Jewish studies authority in China. It sequentially introduces the Kaifeng Jewish community, which has a history of nearly a thousand years and now only has a few descendants who have been assimilated, the hundreds of Jewish merchants from Baghdad who settled in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the mid-19th century, the numerous Jewish immigrants from the Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, as well as the tens of thousands of Jewish refugees who came to Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s to escape the Nazi Holocaust, which was the only refuge at the time. The book also highlights the Jews who actively fought alongside the Chinese people during the Chinese Revolution, the War of Resistance Against Japan, and after the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The content is extensive, making it a richly illustrated and comprehensive history. The book, in the form of a photographic collection, sequentially introduces the Kaifeng Jewish community with a history of nearly a thousand years, now only having a few descendants who have been assimilated, the hundreds of Jewish merchants from Baghdad who settled in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the mid-19th century, the numerous Jewish immigrants from the Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, and various Jews in China.