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T H E JE WI S H – C H I N E S E N E X U S
The Jewish–Chinese Nexus
explores, through a collection of chapters, the
nexus between two of the oldest, intact, starkly contrasting and most inter-
esting civilizations on earth; Jews and Chinese. This volume studies how they
are interacting in modernity; how they view each other; what areas of
cooperation are evolving between their scholars, activists and politicians; and
what talents, qualities and social assets are being recognized on each side for
the purpose of cooperation and exchange.
Featuring contributions from some of the most important scholars and
activists from China and from around the Jewish Diaspora, the essays purview
China-related themes including the fascination of Chinese with Jews, and
Judaism and its potential value in Chinese national and religious reconstruction;
religious and ethnic identity; and East–West interactions. It deals with the
growing Jewish community in China and its impact, as well as the development
of Jewish studies in China and the translation of Jewish texts into Chinese and
their impact.
The work is a first of its kind, identifying an emerging meeting point between
these two peoples, and arguing that, despite the giant contrasts in their national
constructs, they have nonetheless other important patterns and themes in
common that pave the way for fruitful cooperation and mutual respect. As
such, it is indispensable for students of China as well as the Jewish Diaspora and
provides useful reading for Western tourists to China.
M. Avrum Ehrlich
is a full professor of Jewish Thought at the Center of
Judaic and Inter-Religious Studies at the Department of Religion at Shandong
University, a government-funded national center for inter-religious research
in Jinan, China. Ehrlich is a theologian, social philosopher and scholar of
classic Jewish texts as well as being involved in training Chinese scholars to
understand and translate Jewish concepts and classics into Chinese.
RO U T L E D G E J E W I S H S T U D I E S S E R I E S
Series Editor: Oliver Leaman
University of Kentucky
Studies which are interpreted to cover the disciplines of history, sociology,
anthropology, culture, politics, philosophy, theology, and religion, as they
relate to Jewish affairs. The remit includes texts that have as their primary
focus issues, ideas, personalities, and events of relevance to Jews, Jewish life,
and the concepts that have characterized Jewish culture both in the past and
today. The series is interested in receiving appropriate scripts or proposals.
ME D I E VA L J E W I S H P H I LO S O P H Y
An introduction
Dan Cohn-Sherbok
FAC I N G T H E OTH E R
The ethics of Emmanuel Levinas
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Edited by Sean Hand
M O S E S MA I M O N I D E S
Oliver Leaman
A U S E R ’ S G U I D E T O F R A N Z RO S E N Z W E I G ’ S
STA R O F R E DE M P T IO N
Norbert M. Samuelson
O N L I B E RT Y
Jewish philosophical perspectives
Edited by Daniel H. Frank
REFERRING TO GOD
Jewish and Christian philosophical and theological perspectives
Edited by Paul Helm
J U DA I S M , P H I LO S O P H Y, C U LT U R E
Selected studies by E. I. J. Rosenthal
Erwin Rosenthal
P H ILO SO P H Y O F T H E TA L MU D
Hyam Maccoby
F RO M S Y NAG O G U E T O C H U RC H
The traditional design: its beginning, its definition, its end
John Wilkinson
H ID DE N P H ILO SO P HY O F HA N NA H A R E N DT
Margaret Betz Hull
D EC O N S T RU C T I N G T H E B I B L E
Abraham ibn Ezra’s introduction to the Torah
Irene Lancaster
I M AGE O F TH E B L AC K I N J EW I SH C U LTU R E
A history of the other
Abraham Melamed
F RO M FA L A S H A S T O E T H I O P I A N J E W S
Daniel Summerfield
P H I LO S O P H Y I N A T I M E O F C R I S I S
Don Isaac Abravanel: defender of the faith
Seymour Feldman
JE W S, M U SL I M S A N D M A S S M E D I A
Mediating the ‘other’
Edited by Tudor Parfitt with Yulia Egorova
JEWS OF ETHIOPIA
The birth of an elite
Edited by Emanuela Trevisan Semi and Tudor Parfitt
A RT IN Z I O N
The genesis of national art in Jewish Palestine
Dalia Manor
H E B R E W L A N G UAG E A N D JE W I SH T H O U G H T
David Patterson
C O N TE M P O R A RY J E W I S H P H I LO S O P H Y
An introduction
Irene Kajon
A N T I S EM I T I S M A N D M O D E R N I T Y
Innovation and continuity
Hyam Maccoby
J E WS A N D I N D I A
History, image, perceptions
Yulia Egorova
JE W I SH M YS T I C I S M A N D M AG I C
An anthropological perspective
Maureen Bloom
M A I M O N I D E S ’
GU IDE TO T HE PE R P LE X ED
Silence and salvation
Donald McCallum
M U S C U L A R J UDA I S M
The Jewish body and the politics of regeneration
Todd Samuel Presner
J EW I SH C U LTU R A L NAT IO NA L IS M
David Aberbach
THE JEWISH–CHINESE NEXUS
A meeting of civilizations
Edited by M. Avrum Ehrlich
G E R M A N – J E W I S H P O P U L A R C U LT U R E
B E F O R E T H E H O LO C AU S T
Kafka’s kitsch
David Brenner
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