Sino-Judaic.org
Title
The Sino-Judaic Insitute
Description
The Sino-Judaic Institute
Jews have been a part of Chinese history for hundreds of years; there are traces of a Jewish presence starting at least in the 8th century. The most enduring community was that in Kaifeng (central China) dating back to the 11th century. There are stone inscriptions from 1489, 1512, 1663 and 1674 which celebrate the repair of their Synagogue. This community finally disintegrated in the 1850's, but some descendants of those Kaifeng Jews survive until today. Baghdadi Jews established a Sephardi community in Shanghai (1845) after the opening of the Treaty Ports. Later, Russian Jews escaping pogroms founded Ashkenazi communities in Shanghai, Harbin and Tientsin. In the 1930's desperate refugees fleeing the Nazis found Shanghai to be the only place in the world which accepted them without visas. By the 1950's most Jews had left China, but the buildings they built, the records they kept, their economic and their cultural contributions are a monument to that historical experience.
The Sino-Judaic Institute is a non-denominational, non-profit, and non-political organization which was founded on June 27, 1985, in Palo Alto, California, by an international group of scholars and laypersons. Its goals and purposes are as follows:
To promote friendship and understanding between the Chinese and Jewish peoples and to encourage and develop their cooperation in matters of mutual historical and cultural interest.
Languages
English
Contact
- Sino-Judaic Institute
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- Menlo Park CA
- United States 94025
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- +1.6503231769
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External Links
- Alexa: Sino-Judaic.org
