By Jonathan Goldstein, Benjamin Schwartz
A powerful interdisciplinary attempt by means of chinese language, jap, heart jap, and Western Sinologists and Judaic reviews experts, those books scrutinize styles of migration, acculturation, assimilation, and financial task of successive waves of Jewish arrivals in China from nearly A.D.1100 to 1949.
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Volume Two, a sourcebook and research guide, contains articles by Chinese historians on traditional Chinese awareness about Jews; recollections of life in China by former Jewish residents, including a distinguished diplomat, an academic, an attorney, and a journalist/editor; guides to specific collections of source material about Jews in China; and a bibliography. The authors and translators of these articles are citizens of the United States (21), China (7), Israel (3), the United Kingdom (2), Japan (1), and Italy (1).
Were certain holidays or rituals added to the life cycle? Did aspects of the Jews' ritual life help them integrate into the society of China or set them apart? How did Jews in China see themselves vis-à-vis their neighbors and Jews elsewhere? Did they even know that there were Jewish communities in existence elsewhere? What was the nature of Jewish communal institutions in China, so basic to the preservation of "community" among Jews in Europe, the Middle East, and India? How did Jews represent themselves to the non-Jewish community around them?
Historian Joan G. Roland discusses the nineteenth century arrival in Hong Kong and Shanghai of Baghdadi Jews from India. She then contrasts the role of Baghdadi Jews in China with their even longer experience in India. Historian Lane Earns explains the role of the Japanese transit point of Nagasaki for Jews reaching China. By the early twentieth century Yokohama and Kobe also served this purpose. Thus, journalist Israel Epstein's father, Lazer, moved his young family from Warsaw, Russian Poland, to Kobe and thence to Harbin and Tianjin.