Pearl Buck - Peony

A frequent lecturer on the topic, she serves on the Board of the Sino-Judaic Institute, Palo Alto, CA., and is currently teaching Asian studies at NYU and the New School for Social Research in New York City. She has visited China six times since 1981, and in 1985 recorded oral histories of the oldest descendants of Chinese Jews in Kaifeng which she hopes to publish.

Abraham, Wendy R. “Kaifeng’s Legacy, Chinese Jewish Identity,” Hadassah Magazine, vol. 69 no. 1, August/September 1987, p. 20–25. (Illus. with photos by the author).

Kublin, Hyman, ed. Jews in Old China: Some Western Views. New York: Paragon Book Reprint, 1971.

Leslie, Donald Daniel. The Survival of the Chinese Jews. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1972.

______. “The Kaifeng Jewish Community: A Summary.” Jewish Journal of Sociology 9, no. 2 (December 1969): 175-85.Reprinted in Kublin, Studies, pp. 187-97.

Martin, W.A.P. “Account of a Visit to the Jews in Honan.” The Chinese: Their Education, Philosophy, and Letters, New York, 1881.

Perlmann, S.M. The History of the Jews in China. London, 1912.

Pollak, Michael. Mandarins, Jews, and Missionaries: The Jewish Experience in the Chinese Empire. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1980.

______. ed. The Sino-Judaic Bibliographies of Rudolf Loewenthal. Hebrew Union College Press, Cincinnati, in association with The Sino-Judaic Institute, Palo Alto, CA., 1988.

White, William Charles. Chinese Jews. 3 vols. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1942. (Reprinted (3 vols. in 1), Cecil Roth, ed., New York, Paragon Book Reprint, 1966.