HISTORY OF JUDAISM IN CHINA - DOCUMENTARY 

Here is lesser known fact: After Kristallnacht, many Jews were forced to leave Germany and its occupied regions. In order for Jews to leave, they needed to secure an entry or exit visa. Although entry to Shanghai did not require a visa, the Jews still couldn't exit German territories without a proof of emigration. When most Western countries barred Jews, a Chinese diplomat in Vienna, Austria, named Ho Feng Shan issued more than 2000 visas to Austrian Jews within 6 months of his post. The remarkable thing about his action was he issued the visas to anyone who visited the consulate, without scrutiny and in defiance of his superior. Technically, Chinese visa was not accepted by Japanese occupiers after the fall of Shanghai. But that didn't stop Ho from continuing issuing the visas, since all the Jews needed was a proof of any nation accepting them. It is unknown how many visas he had issued in total, but at the end of 1940, there were around 6000 Austrian Jews living in Shanghai. Many of which escaped using the visas issued by Ho.

The commentator really named every history characters properly! Well done and keep it up!

i was born in Harbin. a city established by building a railway bridge over Songhua River, and ruled by the Russians who owned the railway. then the Japanese took over the railway and half of the city by defeating Russia in Ruso-Japanese War. ...and the Japanese built a "731" facility using Chinese people for exprimenting w/ poison gas and other things. but apperantly they dont kill Jews

Very accurate and unbiased ... Much appreciated

Nice obscure part of china history

This channel is gold. Thank you for crafting these videos.

4:38 Now that's an old dude

Thank you for making this!!

A famous Chinese actress called Jiang Wen Li got Jewish ancestry in her family

Thanks for your video. Very informative!

Thank you so much for posting the history of the Jewish people in Shanghai. I was fascinated.

Fascinating stuff !

toujours aussi bien documenté et illustré. Beau travail d' historien autodidacte

I find your channel fascinating. Chinese history is something I don't know much about and to me that's a problem you're helping me solve.

We appreciate it!!!! Thanks for sharing!!! Very interesting!!!

Thank you, it was very interesting.

I recently discovered your channel (my husband introduced me 😊) and promptly subscribed. Excellently accurate content and very educational as it is unbiased. Bravo! 👍

This was very interesting. Thank you.

Fascinating and interesting that history books don't mention that these things really happened. Back then in their time, people travel around the world, seek out new ideas, new philosophies, new religions, strange language barrier, and make trades to foreign countries.

Marvellous source of knowledge .

Great channel

beautiful documentary. Thank you.

Great video and history!!! But you should have touched more on the Jewish refugees who ended up in Harbin and later Shanghai.

Thank you, very interesting and unknown part of Jewish and Chinese History.

The traditional Chinese zither-music is very nice, but there are a few moments when it comes out of the background and seems to fight-against/"talk-over" the narrator... Great video, nonetheless! 👍😊❤️

Awesome job. Please do one about the history of Islam in China. Thank you

Very intresting👍

Most interesting :)

Nice

Very interested about Jewish History in China as I took Far East History course at Gallaudet University.

That earliest Persian Jewish scripts both are found in XinJiang Hotan

whats the music from 8:53? and please make more videos

I'd like to hear more about the historic Muslim populations of northern and western China as well! Thanks for sharing!!!

Excellent!

Thanks for this information it was very informative.I had no idea Jews were in China all that time.

No mention of Little Luo Rosenbaum?

Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel. 5From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed, from the tribe of Reuben 12,000, from the tribe of Gad 12,000, 6from the tribe of Asher 12,000, from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000, from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000, 7from the tribe of Simeon 12,000, from the tribe of Levi 12,000, from the tribe of Issachar 12,000, 8from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000, from the tribe of Joseph 12,000, from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.

Shalom all I Love Jews Long Live ISRAEL AMEN.

you forgot to mentioned to delve into the Harbin Synagogue

Wonderful short video about the Jews in China.

To be fair, Judaism could easily be considered as one (respectfully, the oldest) of at least FOUR surviving major monotheistic religions. (There are more practicing Sikhs than there are practicing Jews, are there not? Why do the Sikhs always get left out of the "One-God Club"?) ... Of course, the Zoroastrian/Parsi faith could also be considered "Monotheistic" and "surviving", but I'm not sure if it could be called "major".

The Kaifeng jews left us 4 inscriptions each containing 4-5000 characters, but we in the west could decipher only a few sentences . A new translation of the entire 4 inscriptions is in the book "The Kaifeng Stone Inscriptions" (2006] (Amazon) annotated in both Chinese and Jewish context. Are the jews mentioned in Ancient Chinese literature? You can find the answer in "A history of the Kaifeng Israelites" (2018} (Amazon) , written by a scholar of Classical Chinese language and Hebrew.

This is indeed a lesser known history

go to macau learn more, i'm macanese, i know what u mean. bruce lee is quater jew and his cousin stanley ho is a chinese dutch jew casino founder in macao..

Amazing. Didn’t know the beginning of Jewish community before WWII.

What’s the music used at the end ?

Can you do one on Islam in China too? Please 🙏 Your content is great!

I wonder if the Israelis would rebuild the Chinese synagogues in Israel, or maybe in Birobidjan, Russia.

The dream of 2,000 years, Jews have and will survive and prosper.

Music at 6:05

Putting a link to your information in the 2022 Jewish Thoight & History Calendar.

很有意思 好看的 我原来不认识中国犹太历史

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There are 60 million Muslims in China and Islam came to China in 713 AD. There are 2,500 Jews in China and Judaism came to China in 618 AD. There are 130 million Christians and Christianity came to China in 551 AD, China has the 3rd highest Christian population in the world.

We follow an ancient old Egyptian culture in India North East 🙏

I find lots of judeo practices and values in chinese culture. Can you research on it from history of Genesis in chinese language to common traditional valuex of honouring parents to diligence to saving as inheritance for descendants to worship of the heavenly king without image or idol to red on doorposts and lentils to three joss incense and three cups for libations to urim and thummin, etc... of course chinese religious practices have adulterated, been modified and corrupted but there are too many coincidental practices that warrant investigation. They even have spiritual arks in some religious processions like the Japanese shinto processions. All this is extremely interesting for one God who made one land with one common beginning till the flood came and caused the continental drift and people got separated and developed different phenotypes. The common elements in creation stories and religious practices indeed proves the truth of biblical accounts. THANKS.

Could you please identify Jewish culture integration in Chinese culture?

They disappeared them

1:36

china mentioned in book of esther

I remember the taiping rebellion ... 30 million dead, the result of one man HongQinquan being deluded into believing he was son of “God”...half brother to JesusChrist.

China then & now tolerated ideologies that are not a threat to the Government.

China officially recognizes only five religions, Judaism is not among them. The five officially recognized religions are: Buddhism Taoism Islam Protestantism Catholicism There are several reasons why Judaism isn't officially recognized: Historically smaller presence: Historically, the Jewish population in China has been much smaller compared to the other five recognized religions. Classification: China's system categorizes religions as "zongjiao," which emphasizes organized institutions and doctrines. Judaism historically hasn't had that same emphasis in China, focusing more on ethnic identity and cultural practices. Government's control: Officially recognized religions operate under government-sanctioned associations, which provide a degree of control and oversight. The Chinese government may be hesitant to extend this model to a smaller, less centralized religious group like Judaism.

which tribe they belong to

4:38 there it saya he lived from 1185/1186 to 1658 wtf

so soso, aka people who say communism has occured in nations without jews...

Se ven hermoso s.👍💌🦁🇮🇱✡️🕎🇮🇱🦁

A couple in a Chinese restaurant asks the waiter what kind of juice they have? The waiter says, "We have apple juice, pear juice, grape juice, but no Chinese Jews!

Even the Somaliland are Jewish

There was never discrimination against the jews in china either

Babylon's Banksters

I would appreciate if you could use BC and AD as the Gregorian calendar is calculated and is based on the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ even though they made a slight mistake therefore BC or before Christ and AD the year of God make sense whereas CE and BCE before common era is ambiguous, nonsensical and most importantly offensive.

I'd recommend the article 'Rethinking the Khazar theory' for anyone believing the khazar hypothesis.

It's so beautiful!!! Incredible things that I didn't know at all. I am One of the beta-Israel Jews from Ethiopia. In the golden age we were 2.5 millions of Jews, but today only 153 thousands that's it!!! In the holy bible written " lebilti yidach mimeno nidach"

❤❤❤Shallomo peace for Jerusalem remind Salt Covenant +Lev2:13&+Nu18:19&+2Ch13:5=+He7:1-3Jesus Christ&Melcizedec (+Psalms122:6=+Ez48:35&+Ez44:1-3)...Amen❤❤❤

why no history of Islam in China?

Yeshua is the Messiah foretold by the prophet Isaiah. Rabbis don't want the jews to understand the text of Isaiah 53. They call it the forbidden chapter.

If jews are really something special then their god exists. If their god exists then the asiatics descend from one of Noahs son. If they descend from Noahs son (before Abraham was there) then ....a more clever person contunues this theory, I'm too lazy

You should Muslim next

😅😂😂

Xiexie!!

And nothing about the jewish role in fomenting the cultural revolution and propping Mao. Very timely especially for our American friends.

how the hell he dig out info this old....hahahaha

Sus

Where is Islam in China, Chinese Muslim always loyal to China ......

Does Chinese Jews have right to Israel citizenship?

free Palestine

Funny how it changed from Jews to Jewish.. 🤦🏾‍♂️

Pl do not mix with the Jews fr Europe and those Kaifeng Jews that came down fr the Himalayas. Those fr Europe migrated to China during the Holocaust and they were fr the Caucasus. They were converted to Judaism in 740AD by their King, Bulan. But those fr the Himalayas existed more then 2000yrs came before Jesus was born. They class themselves as fr the tribe of Manasseh, one of the 12 tribes of Israel.