Mandarins, Jews, and missionaries : the Jewish experience in the Chinese Empire / Michael Pollak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pollak, Michael, 1918-

Contributor:

Dudden, Adrianne Onderdonk.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--China--History.

Jews.

China.

History.

Missions--China.

Missions.

China--History.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, 436 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society of America, 5740 1980.

Contents:

Prologue: Encounter in Peking

Part One. The World and the Chinese Jews: The European reaction; Ricci's Jews and Cromwell's puritans; Testaments in stone; Guidelines for Rome; An illusion shattered; Interlude of silence; Enter James Finn; The Chinese delegates; The orphan colony; Too little, and much too late; Beyond the point of no return; Outright lies, tall tales, and a few truths

Part Two. The World of the Chinese Jews: The beginnings of Judaism in China; The synagogue on the earth-market character street; The Jewish way of life in Kaifeng; The Jews and their neighbors

Epilogue: Survival and extinction.

Notes:

"First edition."

"Designed by Adrianne Onderdonk Dudden."

Endpapers have map of China-Ch'ing (Manchu) dynasty, 1644-1911.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-363) and index.

Local Notes:

Acc.# 1318-1319

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0827601204 :

OCLC:

5565516