Jews in China : : Cultural Conversations, Changing Perceptions / / Irene Eber; ed. by Kathryn Hellerstein.

Irene Eber was one of the foremost authorities on Jews in China during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries-a field that, in contrast to the study of the Jewish diaspora in Europe and the Americas, has been critically neglected. This volume gathers fourteen of Eber's most salient articles a...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
VerfasserIn:
HerausgeberIn:
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2019
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination ; 7
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (276 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction by Kathryn Hellerstein
  • Section 1: Overview
  • 1 Overland and by Sea
  • 2 Chinese Jews and Jews in China
  • 3 Flight to Shanghai
  • Section 2: Translating the Ancestors
  • 4 A Critical Survey of Classical Chinese Literary Works in Hebrew
  • 5 The Peking Translating Committee and S. I. J. Schereschewsky's Old Testament
  • 6 Translating the Ancestors
  • Section 3: Modern Literature in Mutual Translation
  • 7 Bridges Across Cultures
  • 8 Sholem Aleichem in Chinese?
  • 9 Translation Literature in Modern China
  • 10 Meylekh Ravitch in China
  • 11 The Critique of Western Judaism in The Castle and Its Transposition in Two Chinese Translations
  • 12 Martin Buber and Chinese Thought
  • 13 Chinese and Jews
  • 14 Learning the Other
  • Credits
  • Index