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
Hui people
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The Hui people are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Chinese-speaking adherents of Islam. They are distributed throughout China, mainly in the northwestern provinces and in
Kaifeng Jews
…centuries. The distinctive customary life of the Kaifeng community slowly eroded, as assimilation and intermarriage with non-Jewish (Han Chinese and Hui) neighbors advanced, until, by the 19th century, its Jewishness largely became extinct, apart from its retention of memories of its clan's Jewish past…
Elderly Hui Muslim in front of a shop
A halal meat store sign in Hankou, c. 1934–1935.
Halal (清真) restaurants offering Northwestern beef lamian can be found throughout the country
A halal (清真) bathhouse in Linxia City