Seminars
and Workshops
Plans
History
China Judaic Studies Association
Promoting Judaic Studies in China
Bibliography
Xu Xin, et al. Chinese edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica, Nanjing, 1994.
Kaifeng
Books
Buck, Pearl S. Peony, (set in Kaifeng, 1850), Block, Publishing, NY, (with afterward by Wendy R. Abraham, Ed.D.) 1990.
China and the Jews, Exhibition, Harvard Weidner Library, Cambridge, 1992.
China in the Sixteenth Century: the Journals of Matthew Ricci: 1583-1610, Translated from the Latin by Louis J. Gallagher, Random House, NY.
Dicker, Herman. Wanderers and Settlers in the Far East, Twayne,, NY, 1962
Ezra, Edward Isaac. Chinese Jews, Shanghai, 1926.
Kublin, Hyman, ed. Jews in Old China: Some Western Views, Paragon Book Reprint Corp, NY, 1971.
Kublin, Hyman, ed. Studies of the Chinese Jews: Selections from Journals East and West, Paragon Books.
Leslie, Donald. Survival of the Chinese Jews, the Jewish Community of Kaifeng, Leiden, 1972.
Leventhal, Donald and Mary, ed. Faces of the Jewish Experience in China, Jewish Historical Society of Hong Kong, 1990. (Spertus)
Needle, M. Patricia, ed. East Gate of Kaifeng: a Jewish world inside China, China Center, U. of Minnesota, 1992.
Perlmann, S.M. The History of the Jews in China, Mazin and Co., London, 1913.
Pollak, Michael. Mandarins, Jews and Missionaries, the Jewish Experience in the Chinese Empire, Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1980.
Pollak, Michael, The Sino Judaic Bibliographies of Rudolf Lowenthal, Hebrew Union College, 1988.
Pollak, Michael. The Jews of Dynastic China: A Critical Bibliography, Hebrew Union College, 1993.
Shapiro, Sidney, ed. Jews in Old China, Studies by Chinese Scholars, Hippocene Books, NY, 1984.
Sino Judaica: Occasional Papers of the Sinai Judaic Institute.
Wang, Yisha, The Spring and Autumn of the Chinese Jews (in Chinese), Kaifeng, 1993.
White, William Charles. Chinese Jews: A Compilation of Matters Relating to the Jews of K'ai-feng Fu, Paragon Book Reprint Corp, NY, 1966.
Xu, Xin with Beverly Friend, Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng, KTAV, Hoboken, 1995.
Xu Xin, The Jews of Kaifeng, China, History, Culture, and Religion, (KTAV 2003)
Films
Chinese Jews on the Banks of the Yellow River 13 min, Beth Hatefutsoth (Nahum Goldmann museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv. National Center for Jewish Film, Lown Bldg 102, Brandeis Uniiv, Waltham MA 002254 (617-899-7044).
Jewish Diasporas in China, Speech by Xu Xin, 8/13/93
Minyan in Kaifeng, A Modern Journey to an Ancient Chinese Jewish Community. 1800 Camden Ave #201, Los Angeles, Ca 90024. http://www.gorpbrothers.com
Shanghai
Books
Agel, Jerome and Eugene Boe. Deliverance in Shanghai, Dembner Bks, NY, 1983.
Ben-Eliezer, Shanghai Lost, Jerusalem Regained, ZBM Printing, Israel, 1985.
Grebenschikoff, Betty I. Once my Name was Sara (a memoir), Cape Printing, New Jersey, 1992 (self published).
Heppner, Ernest. Shanghai Refuge, University of Nebraska Press, 1993.
Krasno, Rena. Strangers Alone, Pacific View Press, 1993.
Kranzler, David. Japanese, Nazis & Jews, the Jewish Refugee Community of Shanghai, 1938-1845, Yeshiva University Press, 1976.
Pan Guang, The Jews in Shanghai, Shanghai Pictorial Publishing House, 1996.
Patent, Gregory. Shanghai Passage, Clarion Books, NY, 1990.
Ross, James R. Escape to Shanghai, The Free Press, NY, 1993.
Films
Escape to Shanghai, 25 min.
Escape to the Rising Sun, 95 min. (National Center for Jewish Film, Brandeiks).
Another Time...Another Moses, 25 min. (Interview of Shanghai Survivor Martin Moses, by Beverly Friend, available from Oakton Community College, 1600 Golf Rd., Des Plaines IL. 60016).
Round Eyes in the Middle Kingdom 18 min. of planned documentary (the Jews who stayed), Ron Levaco, 1102 Page, St,. San Francisco, 94117.
Shopsowitz, Karen, A Place to Save Your Life: The Shanghai Jews, Filmakers Library web page: www.filmakers.com (email: info@filmakers.com) (original version 52 min; 22 min version alaso available for sale or rental).
Safe Haven in China: Interviews by Cynthia Zeiden, in process. See www.safehaveninchina.org
Japan
Ben Dasan, Isaiah. The Japanese and the Jews, Weatherhill, NY, 1972 (translated from Japanese).
Tokayer, Marvin and Mary Swartz. The Fugu Plan, The Untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews During World War II, Paddington Press, NY, 1979.
India
Roth, Cecil. The Sassoon Dynasty, Arno Press, NY, 1977.
Sassoon, David Solomon. A History of the Jews of Baghdad, Ams Press, NY, 1949.
Journals
The China/Judaic Connection, editor, Beverly Friend, Ph.D., published for members of the China Judaic Studies Association ON-LINE ONLY: http://www.oakton.edu/~friend/chinajews.html
Igud Yitzei Sin (Association of Former Residents of China (founded in 1951), printed in English, Hebrew and Russian. P.O.Box 1601 Tel Aviv, 61015, Israel, Phone/FAX 03-517-1997, email igud-sin@barak-online.net
Kulanu ("all of us") Helping Lost Jewish Communities, 11603 Gilsan St., Silver Spring MD 20902-3122. Tel: 3-1-681-5679; FAX 301-681-1587; www.kalanu.org