Author: POLLAK, MICHAEL (SIGNED)
Title: Mandarins, Jews, and Missionaries the Jewish Experiencw in the Chinese Empire Hardcover
Description: Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0827601204. Illustrated by Dudden, Adrianne Onderdonk. Signed and inscribed by author upon verso of half-title. "Tells the amazing story of those almost forgotten bands of Jews who wandered into China many centuries ago and with the passage of time blended physically and psychologically into the general population, although managing to remain until fairly recently a distinctly identifiable Jewish entity. Most particularly, [this book] deals with the last of the several Jewish colonies that once dotted the Chinese Empire, the community that was established in the Sung capital of Kaifeng, in Honan Province, between the tenth and twelfth centuries and that still owned a synagogue as late as the mid-1800s. This fascinating account of an exotic offshoot of Israel also relates how the Jews of Kaifeng, following their discovery in 1605 by a Jesuit priest, Father Matteo Ricci, entered into the European imagination of the time, stirring up a hornet's nest of curiosity and controversy among both Christians and Jews." - dust jacket. xviii, [2]-436 pp. Glossary, Selected Bibliography, Footnotes and Index. Black and white illustrations. Map endpapers. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound signed copy of this fascinating study. ; Dust Jacket; 8vo; 436 pages; Signed by Author. Good in Good dust jacket .

Keywords: 0827601204 Missions History Religion Asia


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