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The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng

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Title The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng : a millennium of adaptation and endurance / edited by Anson H. Laytner and Jordan Paper.
Contributors Laytner, Anson (editor)
Paper, Jordan D. (editor)
Publisher Lanham : Lexington Books
Creation Date [2017]
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content Introduction / Jordan Paper and Anson H. Laytner -- Part I. Past -- Radhanites, Chinese Jews, and the Silk Road of the steppes / Nigel Thomas -- Eight centuries in the Chinese diaspora : the Jews of Kaifeng / Erik Zürcher -- Kaifeng Jews : sinification and the persistence of identity and history / Irene Eber -- The Confucianization of the Chinese Jews : interpretations of the Kaifeng stelae inscriptions / Andrew H. Plaks -- The Old Testament and Biblical figures in Chinese sources / Donald Daniel Leslie -- The issue of the Jewishness of Chinese Jewish magistrates / Jordan Paper -- Zhao Yingcheng from fact to fiction : the story of "The Great Advisor" / Moshe Yehuda Bernstein -- Part II. Present -- A history of early Jewish interactions with the Kaifeng Jews / Alex Bender -- 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 -- Identity discourse and the Chinese Jewish descendants / Mathew A. Eckstein -- Messianic Zionism, settler colonialism, and the lost Jews of Kaifeng / Mohammed Turki al-Sudairi -- Between survival and revival : the impact of contemporary Western Jewish contact on Kaifeng Jewish identity / Anson H. Laytner -- Chronology.
Extent xix, 270 pages
24 cm.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2017
National Library system number 990041062460205171

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