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RO U T L E D G E J E W I S H S T U D I E S S E R I E S Series Editor: Oliver Leaman University of Kentucky Studies which are interpreted to cover the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, culture, politics, philosophy, theology, and religion, as they relate to Jewish affairs. Ehrlich is a theologian, social philosopher and scholar of classic Jewish texts as well as being involved in training Chinese scholars to understand and translate Jewish concepts and classics into Chinese.
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Avrum Ehrlich is a full professor of Jewish Thought at the Center of Judaic and Inter-Religious Studies at the Department of Religion at Shandong University, a government-funded national center for inter-religious research in Jinan, China. As such, it is indispensable for students of China as well as the Jewish Diaspora and provides useful reading for Western tourists to China. The work is a first of its kind, identifying an emerging meeting point between these two peoples, and arguing that, despite the giant contrasts in their national constructs, they have nonetheless other important patterns and themes in common that pave the way for fruitful cooperation and mutual respect. It deals with the growing Jewish community in China and its impact, as well as the development of Jewish studies in China and the translation of Jewish texts into Chinese and their impact. Featuring contributions from some of the most important scholars and activists from China and from around the Jewish Diaspora, the essays purview China-related themes including the fascination of Chinese with Jews, and Judaism and its potential value in Chinese national and religious reconstruction religious and ethnic identity and East–West interactions.

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This volume studies how they are interacting in modernity how they view each other what areas of cooperation are evolving between their scholars, activists and politicians and what talents, qualities and social assets are being recognized on each side for the purpose of cooperation and exchange. The Jewish–Chinese Nexus explores, through a collection of chapters, the nexus between two of the oldest, intact, starkly contrasting and most interesting civilizations on earth Jews and Chinese. T H E JE WI S H – C H I N E S E N E X U S
