Dan Bloom: For linguistics scholar in Taiwan, Yiddish is more than just shtick
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency: S.H. Chang is a Yiddish specialist at Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages in Taiwan. She may be one of a kind ” after all, you don’t find many Chinese academics in...
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From a Village in China To the Wedding Canopy in Jerusalem – Baruch Gordon
From Israel National News: Shlomo and Dina Jin are descendants of the Jewish community that existed for nearly a thousand years in Kaifeng, China. With the help of the Shavei Israel organization, the...
View ArticleA Chinese saga – Hadassah Bat-Haim
From the Jerusalem Post: On the morning of July 6, 1913, Shaw Bah Tien sat in his private room, waiting. The atmosphere in the house was tense. His beloved wife, Ni, was about to give birth. He had...
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Reviving Shanghai’s Jewish History – Louisa Lim
From NPR: A new Jewish center has just opened in Shanghai, the first of its kind in China in 50 years. During the World War II, the city saved an estimated 30,000 Jewish lives by welcoming refugees...
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Chinese Orphan’s Journey to Jewish Rite of Passage – Andy Newman
From the New York Times: Fu Qian, renamed Cecelia Nealon-Shapiro at 3 months, was one of the first Chinese children ” most of them girls ” taken in by American families after China opened its doors to...
View ArticleChinese Diplomat Who Saved Thousands During Holocaust Honored
From AFP: The heroic actions of a Chinese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by issuing visas for them to flee Austria are being honoured in an exhibition at the US Congress....
View ArticleChina’s Ancient Jewish Enclave
A New York Times travel story visits the few remaining but active Jews in Kaifeng, Henan: Earlier, Ms. Guo had brought us into a narrow courtyard at 21 Teaching Torah Lane — an alley once central to...
View ArticleChinese Jews Feel More at Home in Israel
The Los Angeles Times looks at China’s small, ancient Jewish community in Kaifeng and the few members who have moved to Israel: Jin and her relatives belong to a community of Chinese Jews that was...
View ArticleChristian Fundamentalists Targeting Tibetans
While some Christian missionaries in China aim to fill spaces left by the suppression of traditional values and decline of Maoism, others work to convert members of already beleaguered minority...
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