Judaism in China (1126-present) 

Judaism in Calcutta ????

@@watsoniw1093 Thats in "Judaism in India"

Will you be doing Judaism in Japan and the Pacific? It might be a smaller video. I'd also love Judaism in America, but I bet that will be well-covered earlier.

Judaism in China ? Amazing!! Shalom ✡️

I'm Jewcurios. Watching from London UK 🇬🇧 Shalom ✡️

The shapeshifting Jew is a centuries old antisemitic trope, please do not perpetuate it.

Jews - light of the world Messiah is light of the world

How is it genetically possible that a group of people changes their appearance in different parts of the world. At best they would appear to be mixed with other people instead of looking exactly like the people that they dwell near. That story doesn't seem to add up.

@@christopherrodarte9822 because Jews generally have mixed with different populations when in the diaspora but are all still related to other Jewish groups regardless of location, as they all descend from a common gene pool

@@michaelclasby6648 That doesn't answer the question that I asked.

Damn, I must have forgotten to change the label when I re-used it. But I'm glad you enjoyed it!

I'm from South Korea How about Korean ? Judiasm ?

@@SamAronow JEWS IN CHINA AREN'T REAL JEWS!!!! THEY'RE ETHNIC CHINESE!! I GOOGLED JEWS IN CHINA AND THEY ALL LOOK LIKE ETHNIC CHINESE!!! STOP THIS ZIONISM!!

YOU ARE not , not , NOT from south korea , ok ?! @@okhuibutala1640

STOP STEALING OTHER PEOPLE'S COUNTRIES, STOP STEALING OTHER PEOPLE 'S LAND , OK ??!!@@okhuibutala1640

You think Japanese is any better ? Korean minority there can tell you the story

@@alamba1165 yes, the killing of a civilian.

God is love Hopefully all of us Listen to the Messiah's messages - love ❤️🐑🙏

Woah jony??? I remember you from savs discord

So sad but still funny

This is not true. At all. China goes after religions. And they went after Kaifeng Jews, but not only. They also have a scary obsession with Jews.. Scary as it's China.

If China didn't have a problem, there would still be an actual continuous Jewish population.

Good to know someone is still alive. How many of you are left? Hope you prosper!!!

@@hackman669 not really. My community is already gone for long and only some traditions were kept in my family, without much knowledge to what’s the meaning of the blessings we say on a daily basis. Thankfully I’m in the US for college so I’ve got to regain a lot of my culture from the Jewish community here. Sad that I didn’t inherited much Bukharim traditions. As for the Kaifeng Jews - their community still is alive but the community has shrunken over the past decades, again. They were being heavily suppressed during Hanukkah Celebration in 2019, and I haven’t heard anything from them again.

@@uriahlevi8640 hi another Kaifengim 你好，我也在美国，纽约，有机会出来约一下，我爷爷奶奶是

China saved over half a million jews during ww2

Which side?

@@jasonssavitt5297 Yes, but those before them were not so loving to China (when they profited richly from opium).

@@ShangDiAboveGodhood Who didn't profit from China?

@@davidschalit907 Perhaps, but they often get their fair share of rebuke for it. In the case of Jews it's unique, however - because, having been victims of persecution, it's more difficult for most to levy critiques against them if they have been among said persecutors. China welcomed Jews time and time again though, so it makes it more odd in their case why they'd hurt China when we didn't want to hurt them.

Well if the CCP has there way , not for long!

@@victorviereck4117 lol I like these days people just assume CCP is the embodiment of all evils. Time to join a cult.

They intermarried and assimilated into Chinese society (this is what happens when a society is not antisemetic and welcoming). I think dna tests have been done. The majority of their dna is Chinese however their paternal haplogroups are J1 and J2, like other jewish groups.

Are the Chinese Jews going extinct are will they remain? Hope they survive along with other minority groups. World needs to protect its diversity and cultural heritage.

@Sacred Warrior definitely, still recovering the community due to long term government restrictions

@Sacred Warrior You, too, and a late Hanukkah wishes~

Does your situation is getting better and you can practice your religion freely?

How is the situation with being recognized in Israel?

Not even. Yes, the two first characters mean 'blue'(=蓝) and 'cap'(=帽) respectively. But even if we assume the other(回) to be a noun (which we probably shouldn't) it's simply meaning '(a )return'. Shortest common way to write 'Muslim' is '清真' (both characters themselves don't hint at that meaning as they complement each other). (Disclaimer: I'm assuming simplified script for this video, which didn't exist back then.)

​@Sungindra Setiawan I can see that. But in this case it should be written as such and at most clarified in parentheses like "blue cap Hui (mostly Muslims)". Otherwise it's like those famous examples of a common Asian dish written in four characters, but verbosely described in English using upwards of one hundred letters. It's just unfair to imply a deeper meaning that really doesn't exist like some of those celeb tattoos.

@@whohan779 The Chinese used to refer to all muslims with the term 回, including Hui muslims and Turkic/other muslims groups. 回回 was a generic term that referred to all muslims, and different gruops were identifies by adding other characters in front of 回. The term 回 is thought to have originated from 回鹘 (huihu), the ancient Chinese name for Uyghers, and is probably just another name for foreigners like 胡 (hu), just in a more western sense.

@@BB-zy7nu So it's basically just an archaic term that could be a bit ambiguous (unless 回 was never used for the noun return). Thanks for the clarification. Maybe I missed a memo that some of those terms may be incomprehensible to modern speakers of the language.

No name calling

They don’t. Cause most people in China who were familiar with Confucianism knew that it’s not a religion at all. (Jesuits’ perception of religious nature of Confucianism stemmed from the veneration ceremony of Confucian as a great philosopher, which they classified as close to celebrating Sainthood, even Ricci admitted Confucianism is not a religion)

@@jerryx3253 Only ... they _didn't_ "know" that it wasn't a religion. Because it is. Confucius believed in: • God 《論語•堯曰•一》『予小子履，敢用玄牡，敢昭告于皇皇后帝：有罪不敢赦。帝臣不蔽，簡在帝心。』 • Worship of God 《論語•八佾•一一》『或問禘之說。子曰：「不知也。知其說者之於天下也，其如示諸斯乎！」指其掌。』 • Heaven & Earth 《禮記•哀公問•八》『孔子曰：「天地不合，萬物不生。」』 • Spirits 《論語•八佾•一二》『祭如在，祭神如神在。子曰：「吾不與祭，如不祭。」』 • Ancestors 《禮記•曲禮下•一二二》『祭王父曰皇祖考，王母曰皇祖妣。父曰皇考，母曰皇妣。夫曰皇辟。生曰父、曰母、曰妻，死曰考、曰妣、曰嬪。壽考曰卒，短折曰不祿。』 • Prayer 《論語•述而•三五》『子疾病，子路請禱。子曰：「有諸？」子路對曰：「有之。誄曰：『禱爾于上下神祇。』」子曰：「丘之禱久矣。」』 • Orthodoxopraxy 《論語•子路•三》『名不正，則言不順；言不順，則事不成；事不成，則禮樂不興；禮樂不興，則刑罰不中；刑罰不中，則民無所措手足。』 &c Ricci didn't "admit" anything counterfactual. Rather, he only misunderstood and therefore misbelieved thinking it isn't Religion. To answer @Jeff W's legitimate question, one must cite _actual_ sources, such as the fact that in 1489 (some 93-112 years before Jesuits even become relevant in China), Jews were literally trying to justify their own religion in light of three others : *Confucianism,* Buddhism, Daoism. Yes. In _that_ precise order. They held Confucianism in such high regard as a Faith that they put it even above Buddhism itself (which in today's standards is less hassled as to the status of its religiosity...). They saw it as the _most_ compatible with their own and worthy of First Comparison/Citation (theirs being final citation): 《重建清真寺記》 ﹃ 惟三教各有殿宇，尊崇其主。 在儒則有大成殿，尊崇孔子， 在釋則有聖容殿，尊崇牟尼， 在道則有玉皇殿，尊崇三清。 在清真則有一賜樂業殿，尊崇皇天。 ﹄ Of course, they're dishonest in their own assessment just as well since that last line ought to read _在清真則有一賜樂業殿，尊崇𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄。_ 皇天 is not only equally Venerated in Confucianism but is unequally present within Confucianism BEFORE all of the others (Brother Daoism exempted - I mean foreign) since, they are making a translatory effort entering Chinese whereas Confucianism's inheritance from the Old Faith is completely Native & Natural. Moreover, within Confucianism as without, 皇天 is objectively above 孔子 since 皇天 Rules over all 神 (like 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄) and all 聖 (like 孔子).

@@xunqianbaidu6917 What's nonsense is your inability to give a real rebuttal.

Eventually. We've got some time to go before that though.

Yes.

@@SamAronow The RoC quickly recognised 🇮🇱 once the dust had settled--and see also the nuclear cooperation later on.

Humen fascinating you Elohim father is extremely fascinating to me 🤗

opium trade was objectively bad move, plus the usual rundown of-if someone do bad you dont blame the whole group etc- whats interesting to me is motivation. cause everything including antisemtisem will use sparks of truths with the right motivations. Christian/muslim world u may say the motivation was theology. they even went bloody on each other for theology. in europe it may be because of classic xenophobia, that is universal human feature. and also existed between different European groups. in the 20s hundreds, it was ideology. jews, may have represented a communist/capitalist symbols. that too was targeted to more than just jews. but what is the chinese motivation? cause this two groups almost didnt not interacted in a meaningful way. jews were/are negligible demographic. so the classic xenophobia case of fear of growing strangers or a threat to the native culture, isnt seem enough. theology cant be it either in current mainland china. so what is it ? ideology? cause is seems that china is on the communist pill right now.so Hitler germany case against the jews of agents of communism isnt there either.

very unfortunate to hear -- scholarly consensus is that the "Fugu Plan" was NOT actually a plan, but simply a vague confluence of interests among Japanese right-wing military dudes.

What matters most here is jewish antiSinitism. Why did they come to hurt us and spread opium in the first place when we didn't do anything to israel?

​@@souwannabeafilmcriticya1964作为中国人来回答你的动机问题，因为日本侵华期间，犹太人没有同情中国人，所以犹太人出现负面新闻时，中国人也不会同情犹太人。需要提醒的是中国没有反对犹太人，对犹太人有一定的好感度。同样提醒你，中国有些人崇拜阿道夫希特勒，喜欢德国军队。中国非常复杂。不要用动机来衡量中国人思维。中国人非常讨厌你们说的共产主义，资本主义，自由主义思想灌输。我们有自己的判断能力。家庭内部打架，外人不能插嘴，否则外人会受到攻击。

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PxGtD_SqLwo.html he actually did, not specifically about Turkish Jews but what you described in the video is there in the last episode

Because at the time it was the de facto property of the British empire. And yah throughout history might makes right. That’s why Tibet is considered part of China now.

There are more Jews in Taiwan than there used to be, as Taiwan is much more of a western-style immigrant society than most people realize, and they seem to be doing quite well. But there are only about 800 of them.

I imagine it's pretty much just a handful of Israeli and American expat families in Taipei and Kaoshiung

@@rezajafari6395 you would've imagined right

@@SamAronow 800 isnt too bad for an island like Taiwan, the number is growing too! It's amazing how the Jews can adapt to any country and environment despite the hardships.

I'm pretty sure most of them fled as far away as possible to get from the red Chinese...Taiwan is in range of artillery batteries, so it's not exactly the safest place to go...

He did

You deserve more subs

Well, that figure of 55 is on the PRC, not me.

@@SamAronow (Relocated for formatting) 16:08 Gaoshan=ALL Taiwanese Aborigines, and is a blanket term that said Aborigines would take offense to-as such, it’s been a while since I took the figure of 55 seriously. The communist entity took their cues from the Kremlin, and only recognised ethnicities with sufficient population that propaganda in their language could be made, and CCP members chosen from them.(Some of these 55 would also only be debatably considered minorities elsewhere-the She are practically totally assimilated as Hakkas, a sub-ethnicity of the Han, and the Manchurians are even more assimilated, with their language having died.) A few of these are not known by the same name elsewhere; the Miao are the Hmong.

@@SamAronow what do you mean ‘on PRC’？ he is referred as 孫中山 everywhere. His hometown was named 中山市 for that. Yat-sen is rarely used and always specified as styled name in any intro of him. He name is Sun Wen孫文. 中山 came from his Japanese alias 中山樵.

@@lrt_unimog8316 hakka is a folk group 民系.

@@lrt_unimog8316 PRC adopted Soviet ethnographic research methodology, with its pros and cons, and its efforts of ethnic recognition were never finalized due to the interruption of The Cultural Evolution. There No (edit**) is political willing to resume it and they are some legit academic reasons why the idea of ethnic recognition is problematic in nature. Tho the Manchus at a large scale are sinicized, and their language is dead in practice, it is irresponsible to say that they are no longer considered to be an ethnic minority and no longer exists.

www.kosherdelight.com/Japan_Japanese_Occupied_Shanghai_Ghetto.shtml The wording as reported here is under a lot of contention for being anachronistic, so I used the alternate quotation.

Well some Palestinians are gonna lose their properties. Yes this is a joke that takes inspiration from the obvious bullshit happening in Israel-Palestine

@@nehcooahnait7827 since fakestinians are invaders from Arabia wtf cares?

We have almost merged with the Han nationality, and only 1% of us are Jews physically. However, their ethnic groups still keep their original living habits and don't eat pork. Ancient nomads in the north almost merged with our Han nationality, and of course with Turks. Almost all of us Han people are mixed with other nationalities, and we never like to discuss the Han people's problems. We are the largest Han nationality, and almost all of them live together with other nationalities. It doesn't matter if we follow them. The Hui people you mentioned today are only 1% Jewish, or even less than 1%. At that time, life in our country was so good that they simply wanted to go back, but the Romans in the Middle East obviously couldn't accept it. They were mutually exclusive with Jews, but we were integrated with them, and finally we achieved great national integration. Great national integration has always been the dream of our Han people. Unlike Europe, we can have a peaceful country only by achieving great ethnic integration. At that time, the Tang Dynasty of China was the most ideal and open country in the world. Jews were reluctant to leave because our country was economically prosperous. At that time, many businesses in China stayed up all night and were brightly lit all night. If there were satellites, you could see the brightest China at night, which means that it was the same thing that Jews went to the most beautiful country in the world at that time.

Only the Zhang converted to Islam, and only at the turn of the 20th century.

i would take tazdik over gaon

@@ayzikdig1983 Interesting, thanks for your reponse.

Possible. There's always been claims of Israelites and Hebrews and Judeans moving everywhere.