Jews in China

Irene Eber (1929–2019) was Professor Emerita at Hebrew University’s Louis Freiberg Center for East Asian Studies. She authored eleven books, including Chinese and Jews: Encounters Between Cultures, and was the editor of Jewish Refugees in Shanghai, 1933–1947: A Selection of Documents.

• Introduction by Kathryn HellersteinSection 1: Overview1. Overland and by Sea: Eight Centuries of the Jewish Presence in China2. Chinese Jews and Jews in China: Kaifeng-Shanghai3. Flight to Shanghai: 1938-1939 and Its Larger ContextSection 2: Translating the Ancestors4. A Critical Survey of Classical Chinese Literary Works in Hebrew5. The Peking Translating Committee and S. I. J. Schereschewsky’s Old Testament6. Translating the Ancestors: S. I. J. Schereschewsky’s 1875 Chinese Version of GenesisSection 3: Modern Literature in Mutual Translation7. Bridges Across Cultures: China in Yiddish Poetry8. Sholem Aleichem in Chinese?9. Translation Literature in Modern China: The Yiddish Author and His Tale10. Meylekh Ravitch in China: A Travelogue of 193511. The Critique of Western Judaism in The Castle and Its Transposition in Two Chinese Translations12. Martin Buber and Chinese Thought13. Chinese and Jews: Mutual Perceptions in Literary and Related Sources14. Learning the Other: Chinese Studies in Israel and Jewish Studies in ChinaCredits Index

“The fact that these articles and chapters are still as relevant today as when they were initially penned is a credit to Eber. Those interested in Judaism in China would find this volume essential reading. Those with an interest in the more general field of religion and translation would also have much to gain from this volume. Finally, this volume acts as a fitting final publication for a scholar who led the field in life.”—Joseph Chadwin Religious Studies Review