9 The Global Reach of Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction 1
5. I The Bible in China
6. Introduction 27
7. 1 From Rags to Riches: Joseph and His Family 29
8. 2 Why Is Having No Posterity the Worst Unfilial Thing? A Comparison of Mencius 4A:26 and Genesis 38 37
9. 3 The Impact of Ancient Israelite Prophets on Modern Chinese Intellectuals 51
10. 4 Reading the Song of Songs in Jewish and Chinese Tradition 63
11. 5 The Transcultural Characteristics of the Chinese Bible Translated by S. I. J. Schereschewsky (1831–1906): A Case Study of the Song of Songs 79
12. II Jews in Modern China
13. Introduction 97
14. 6 Jewish Communities and Modern China: Encounters of Modern Civilizations 99
15. 7 When the Muscular Jews Came to the Far East: Jewish Sports and Physical Culture in Modern China, 1912–1949 109
16. 8 Tracking the Exact Number of Jewish Refugees in Shanghai 129
17. 9 The Global Reach of Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews 145
18. 10 Jewish Refugee Artists in Shanghai: Visual Legacies of Traumatic Moments and Cultural Encounters 165
19. 11 Drama in Wartime Shanghai 185
20. 12 The Mir Yeshiva and Its Shanghai Sojourn 195
21. 13 Chabad Outreach on the Jewish Frontier: The Case of China 217
22. III Jews and Chinese
23. Introduction 229
24. 14 Yiddish Translations of Chinese Poetry and Theater in 1920s New York 231
25. 15 Enemy or Friend: The Image of China in Yiddish Newspapers during the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) 255
26. 16 To Speak or Not to Speak: Hanoch Levin’s Suitcase Packers and Cao Yu’s Peking Man in Light of Cross-Textual Dialogue 271
27. 17 Teaching American Jewish Literature to Chinese College Students: Anzia Yezierska’s “Children of Loneliness” as a Case Study 285
28. 18 Chinese and Ashkenazic Encounters in the American Immigration Regime: Max J. Kohler, Immigration Legal Practice, and the Chinese Exclusion Act 297
29. 19 A Homeless Stranger Everywhere: The Shadow of the Holocaust on an Israeli Sinologist 317
30. Contributors 337
31. Illustrations 343
32. Table 345
33. Personal Names 347
34. Place Names 355