Need to get to the bottom of this China thang
https://archive.is/tQ6EX
LITTLE-KNOWN CHAPTER OF HOLOCAUST HISTORY INSPIRES A RENAISSANCE
The new arrivals build on three earlier Jewish waves:
Iraqi and Middle Easterners, who saw business potential after China lost the Opium War and opened Shanghai for trade in the mid-1800s; Russians escaping the pogroms in the late 1800s and early 1900s; and Germans and other Europeans who fled Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime in the 1930s and '40s.
>https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2004-12-19-0412151057-story.html
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Israel_relations
In the 1930s, David Ben-Gurion, then leader of the Yishuv in Palestine, proclaimed that China would be one of the great world powers of the future.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jews_in_China
It has been asserted by some that the Jews who have historically resided in various places in China originated with the Lost Ten Tribes of the exiled ancient Kingdom of Israel who relocated to the areas of present-day China. Traces of some ancient Jewish rituals have been observed in some places.
One well-known group was the Kaifeng Jews, who are purported to have traveled from Persia to India during the mid-Han Dynasty and later migrated from the Muslim-inhabited regions of northwestern China (modern day Gansu province) to Henan province during the early Northern Song Dynasty
https://archive.is/NYpbA
Shanghai's Forgotten Jewish Past
In the 1930s and 40s, the Chinese city hosted a large, vibrant community of refugees fleeing persecution in Europe. Can survivors, rabbis, and historians preserve this heritage? When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Shanghai in May 2013 and hailed the city’s role as a “haven” for Jewish people fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe in the 1930s and 40s.
>http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/11/shanghais-forgotten-jewish-past/281713/
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LITTLE-KNOWN CHAPTER OF HOLOCAUST HISTORY INSPIRES A RENAISSANCE
The new arrivals build on three earlier Jewish waves: Iraqi and Middle Easterners, who saw business potential after China lost the Opium War and opened Shanghai for trade in the mid-1800s; Russians escaping the pogroms in the late 1800s and early 1900s; and Germans and other Europeans who fled Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime in the 1930s and '40s.
>https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2004-12-19-0412151057-story.html