Tag: Kaifeng Jews
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For a Chinese-Jewish Rosh Hashanah, date cookies that recall the cultural blend of the Silk Road
This article discusses the author's experience of blending Chinese and Jewish traditions for Rosh Hashanah by making Chinese date paste cookies shaped like fish.
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A Talmudic tale gets a 12th-century Chinese twist in children’s book aimed at diverse Jewish readers
"Zhen Yu and the Snake" is a new children's book by Erica Lyons that reimagines a Talmudic tale set in 12th-century Kaifeng, China, where the first Jewish community in China was established.
"The Haggadah of the Kaifeng Jews of China" is a scholarly monograph that explores the unique Passover Haggadah of the vanished community of Chinese Jews in Kaifeng.