Kaifeng Jews
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Kaifeng Jews are a small community of descendants of Chinese Jews in Kaifeng, Henan province, China. In the early centuries of their settlement, they may have numbered around 2,500 people. Despite the
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
Mizrahi Jews
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Mizrahi Jews, also known as Mizrahim in plural and Mizrahi in singular, and alternatively referred to as Oriental Jews or Edot HaMizrach, are a grouping of Jewish communities that lived in the Muslim
Kaifeng Jews
…nor pathetic victims. Evidence garnered from testing the Y-chromosome of members of the Kaifeng Jewish community shows their genetic relationship to Mizrahi Jewish groups. The American novelist Pearl S. Buck, raised in China and fluent in Chinese, set one of her historical novels (Peony) in a Chinese Jewish…
A Jewish family from Damascus, c. 1901
The Westerners street in Jerusalem, Israel; coined after the Maghrebi Jews
Children in a Jewish school in Baghdad, 1959
Yemenites go to Aden