China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural Encounters

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022

China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural Encounters

Edited by: Kathryn Hellerstein and Lihong Song

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110683943

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In the past thirty years, the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered scholarly and popular attention. This volume will be the first to focus on the transcultural exchange between Ashkenazic Jewry and China. The essays here investigate how this exchange of texts and translations, images and ideas, has enriched both Jewish and Chinese cultures and prepared for a global, inclusive world literature.
The book breaks new ground in the field, covering such new topics as the images of China in Yiddish and German Jewish letters, the intersectionality of the Jewish and Chinese literature in illuminating the implications for a truly global and inclusive world literature, the biographies of prominent figures in Chinese-Jewish connections, the Chabad engagement in contemporary China. Some of the fundamental debates in the current scholarship will also be addressed, with a special emphasis on how many Jewish refugees arrived in Shanghai and how much interaction occurred between the Jewish refugees and the resident Chinese population during the wartime and its aftermath.

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Kathryn Hellerstein, University of Pennsylvania, USA; Lihong Song, Nanjing University, China.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Kathryn Hellerstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I The Bible in China
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
1 From Rags to Riches: Joseph and His Family Irene Eber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2 Why Is Having No Posterity the Worst Unfilial Thing? A Comparison of Mencius 4A:26 and Genesis 38 Fu Xiaowei and Wang Yi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3 The Impact of Ancient Israelite Prophets on Modern Chinese Intellectuals Cao Jian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
4 Reading the Song of Songs in Jewish and Chinese Tradition Zhong Zhiqing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
5 The Transcultural Characteristics of the Chinese Bible Translated by S. I. J. Schereschewsky (1831–1906): A Case Study of the Song of Songs Liu Yan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
II Jews in Modern China
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6 Jewish Communities and Modern China: Encounters of Modern Civilizations Xu Xin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
7 When the Muscular Jews Came to the Far East: Jewish Sports and Physical Culture in Modern China, 1912–1949 Ai Rengui Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
8 Tracking the Exact Number of Jewish Refugees in Shanghai Wang Jian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
9 The Global Reach of Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews Maisie Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
10 Jewish Refugee Artists in Shanghai: Visual Legacies of Traumatic Moments and Cultural Encounters Nancy Berliner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
11 Drama in Wartime Shanghai Yang Meng Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
12 The Mir Yeshiva and Its Shanghai Sojourn Marc B. Shapiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
13 Chabad Outreach on the Jewish Frontier: The Case of China Samuel Heilman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
III Jews and Chinese
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
14 Yiddish Translations of Chinese Poetry and Theater in 1920s New York Kathryn Hellerstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
15 Enemy or Friend: The Image of China in Yiddish Newspapers during the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) Bao Anruo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
16 To Speak or Not to Speak: Hanoch Levin’s Suitcase Packers and Cao Yu’s Peking Man in Light of Cross-Textual Dialogue Zhang Ping Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
17 Teaching American Jewish Literature to Chinese College Students: Anzia Yezierska’s “Children of Loneliness” as a Case Study Li Dong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
18 Chinese and Ashkenazic Encounters in the American Immigration Regime: Max J. Kohler, Immigration Legal Practice, and the Chinese Exclusion Act Rebecca Kobrin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
19 A Homeless Stranger Everywhere: The Shadow of the Holocaust on an Israeli Sinologist Song Lihong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
Table Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Teachers and students of Jewish Studies, China Studies, Literary and Cultural Studies, Translation Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 359
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 19
- Tables: 1
Keywords: Ashkenazi Jews; China; Transculturalism

eBook

Published: April 4, 2022
ISBN: 9783110683943

Hardcover

Published: April 18, 2022
ISBN: 9783110683776

Paperback

Published: October 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783111353456