Kaifeng Jews
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Kaifeng Jews are a small community of descendants of Chinese Jews in Kaifeng, in the Henan province of China. In the early centuries of their settlement, they may have numbered around 2,500 people. Despite their isolation from the rest of the Jewish diaspora, their ancestors managed to practice Jewish traditions and customs for several centuries.
Jews of Kaifeng, late 19th or early 20th century
Ink rubbings of the 1489 stele (left) and 1512 stele (right)
A model of the Kaifeng synagogue at the Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv
Interior of the Kaifeng synagogue, 18th century
History of the Jews in China
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Jews and Judaism in China are predominantly composed of Sephardi Jews and their descendants. Other Jewish ethnic divisions are also represented, including Ashkenazi Jews, Mizrahi Jews and a number of converts.
Jews of Kaifeng, late 19th or early 20th century
Bird's eye view of the synagogue of Kaifeng.
A plaque commemorates the former Jewish Middle School in Harbin, now the No. 2 Korean Middle School
Torah finial in the shape of a pagoda from 19th-century Shanghai (Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme)