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Jewish Harbin Kaifeng Jews

. The Harbin Huang Shan Jewish Cemetery, located in the city's suburbs, is the largest and the best-preserved cemetery in the Far East.. . . The cemetery, with about 600 tombstones engraved in Russian and Yiddish, was built in 1903 in the city center and was transferred outside the city in 1958. In 1992, after the establishment of relations between Israel and China, it was renovated. .

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Jewish Harbin Kaifeng Jews

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    4. The cemetery, with about 600 tombstones engraved in Russian and Yiddish, was built in 1903 in the city center and was transferred outside the city in 1958. In 1992, after the establishment of relations between Israel and China, it was renovated.

    6. Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, paid respects to his grandfather who is buried in the cemetery. He left a stone on the tomb of his grandfather Joseph Olmert, who died in Harbin in 1941.

    10. Jewish Hospital

    17. Minha in the hotel in Harbin

    18. Archeological evidence points to a Jewish presence in China as early as the 8th century, when Jewish merchants traveled the Silk Road from Persia and India. Many travelers, including Marco Polo in the 13th century, reported meeting Jews. During the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), a Ming emperor conferred seven surnames on the Jews, which still identify them today: Ai, Lao, Jin, Li, Shi, Zhang and Zhao. Shi and Jin are the equivalent of common Jewish names in the west: Stone and Gold.

    19. Wikipedia The Kaifeng Jews are members of a small Jewish community that has existed in Kaifeng, in the Henan province of China, for hundreds of years. According to historical records, a Jewish community with a synagogue built in 1163 lived in Kaifeng from at least the Southern Song Dynasty until the late nineteenth century.

    20. The head Jew of Kaifeng gives the Rabbi a gift

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    24. It is believed that the ancestors of the Kaifeng Jews came from Central Asia. The uninterrupted existence of this religious and ethnic group, living for over 700 years in socio-cultural surroundings strongly dominated by Confucian moral and ethical principles, is a unique phenomenon in Chinese and Jewish history.

    25. Moshe, the head Jew and his Chinese wife

    26. Encyclopedia of Diaspora The leader of this group is called Moshe, name given to him by an uncle who told him to remember that he was Jewish. Moshe said :” The Jewish history and culture of Kaifeng is part of the history of the world ‘s Jewish people”.

    27. Kaifeng Jewish descendant

    30. Kaifeng Jewish descendant

    31. In his 1992 documentary series Legacy, historian Michael Wood walked down a small lane in Kaifeng that he said is known as the "alley of the sect who teach the Scriptures", that is, of the Jews. He mentioned that there are still Jews in Kaifeng today, but that they are reluctant to reveal themselves "in the current political climate." The documentary's companion book further states that one can still see a "mezuzah on the door frame, and the candelabrum in the living room." http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Kaifeng_Jews

    33. THE RABBI SUPERVISING THE LOADING OF THE TORAH HE BROUGHT ALL THE WAY FROM THE STATES

    34. Modern Kaifeng

    35. Bar in Kaifeng

    36. Modern hotel

    39. Dec-08 Photos : Charles Berelowitz Music : Mirel Reznik

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