The Jews of Kaifeng, China: History, Culture, and Religion (review)
@article{Pollak2005TheJO, title={The Jews of Kaifeng, China: History, Culture, and Religion (review)}, author={Micah Pollak}, journal={Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies}, year={2005}, volume={23}, pages={206 - 209} }
Jersey City, N.J.: KTAV Publishing House, 2003/193 pp. $29.50. In the preface to this work, Xu Xin, Professor of the History of Jewish Culture at Nanjing University, asserts quite correctly that a great deal of what "has been written about the Jews of China is fantasy, much is polemic, and much is, at best, pseudo-history." What is puzzling, however, is that he promptly follows this statement with the claim that "little if any attention has been paid to charting the life of the Kaifeng…