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Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng
By Xu, Xin & Friend, Beverly & Cheng, Ting & Ting, Cheng
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-88125-528-7
- Publisher
- Hoboken, N.J. : KTAV Pub., 1995.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 1995
Gr 6-Up The anti-Semitic fervor of 11th-century Crusaders drove a community of Jews from their home on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, in what is now Turkey. They eventually settled in Kaifeng, then the capital of China under the Song Dynasty. There they built a synagogue in 1163, and maintained their cultural and religious identity into the 19th century. By the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
