3 Tweets Nov 23, 2024
Absolute gigachad to compose a 240-volume text while carrying out high-level admin duties w/in less than four decades of his short life btw. Interestingly, Chinese Jews had some different customs e.g. fasting and meditation on Shabbat, three-year mourning period etc. x.com
Images of Kaifeng community synagogue register lists of men (left) and women (right) many hundreds of years old. I met Shi Lei in Kaifeng about 10 yrs ago but he seems to have gone quiet after 2015; haven’t talked to him in several years… x.com
There was a Jewish presence in China since before the Tang Dynasty, in fact. x.com

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