China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural Encounters / ed. by Kathryn Hellerstein, Lihong Song

In the past thirty years, the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered scholarly and popular attention. This volume will be the...
Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
PPN (Katalog-ID):

1800718594

Personen:

Hellerstein, Kathryn - 1952- [HerausgeberIn]

Song, Lihong [HerausgeberIn]

Medienart:

E-Book

Umfang:

1 Online-Ressource (XI, 359 p.)

Sprache:

Englisch

Anmerkung:

In English

Erschienen:

München Wien: De Gruyter Oldenbourg ; [2022]

©2022

Basisklassifikation:

15.79 China Geschichte

11.29 Judentum: Sonstiges Religionswissenschaft

15.96 Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel

Schlagwörter:

Jiddisch / Jüdische Literatur / Chinabild / Geschichte

Chinesisch / Bibel / Übersetzung

Schanghai / Juden / Exil / Geschichte 1933-1945

China / Aschkenasim / Kulturkontakt / Geschichte

China / Bibel / Rezeption / Kultur / Geschichte

weitere Schlagwörter:

Jews

China

Judentum

Transnationaler Austausch

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies

Enthält:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Inhalte

Introduction

I The Bible in China

Introduction

1 From Rags to Riches: Joseph and His Family

2 Why Is Having No Posterity the Worst Unfilial Thing? A Comparison of Mencius 4A:26 and Genesis 38

3 The Impact of Ancient Israelite Prophets on Modern Chinese Intellectuals

4 Reading the Song of Songs in Jewish and Chinese Tradition

5 The Transcultural Characteristics of the Chinese Bible Translated by S. I. J. Schereschewsky (1831–1906): A Case Study of the Song of Songs

II Jews in Modern China

Introduction

6 Jewish Communities and Modern China: Encounters of Modern Civilizations

7 When the Muscular Jews Came to the Far East: Jewish Sports and Physical Culture in Modern China, 1912–1949

8 Tracking the Exact Number of Jewish Refugees in Shanghai

9 The Global Reach of Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews

10 Jewish Refugee Artists in Shanghai: Visual Legacies of Traumatic Moments and Cultural Encounters

11 Drama in Wartime Shanghai

12 The Mir Yeshiva and Its Shanghai Sojourn

13 Chabad Outreach on the Jewish Frontier: The Case of China

III Jews and Chinese

Introduction

14 Yiddish Translations of Chinese Poetry and Theater in 1920s New York

15 Enemy or Friend: The Image of China in Yiddish Newspapers during the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905)

16 To Speak or Not to Speak: Hanoch Levin’s Suitcase Packers and Cao Yu’s Peking Man in Light of Cross-Textual Dialogue

17 Teaching American Jewish Literature to Chinese College Students: Anzia Yezierska’s “Children of Loneliness” as a Case Study

18 Chinese and Ashkenazic Encounters in the American Immigration Regime: Max J. Kohler, Immigration Legal Practice, and the Chinese Exclusion Act

19 A Homeless Stranger Everywhere: The Shadow of the Holocaust on an Israeli Sinologist

Weitere Verfasser

Illustrations

Table

Personal Names

Place Names

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ISBN:

978-3-11-068394-3

DOI/URN:

10.1515/9783110683943

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