Jews have lived in Kaifeng for a millennium. It took Xi Jinping only a decade to bring them to the brink.
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Do you want me to judge “the Jews”, the way you judge “the Chinese”? I also have observed “ex-patriot Jews”, as you have observed “ex-patriot Chinese”. What do you suppose I’ve observed?
It is a shame that the Chinese are so reluctant to accept that some people have other beliefs. From observing ex-patriot Chinese, they have become indoctrinated to get the very best bargain in every case, even if they kill the golden goose while doing so.
My paternal grandfather, who was a Jewish Austro-Hungarian prisoner of war in Russia during WWI, I think early on, escaped, swam the Amur river to China and walked until he came to a house that had candles burning in the window. It being a Friday night, when they opened the door, he spoke the only Hebrew words he remembered, being a mostly secular Jew, my father described him as a three days a year Jew, “Shalom Aleichem,” I think, definitely, shalom something, and they welcomed him, took him in, and helped him start a new life there where he learned the local dialect, and lived and worked as a custom tailor until 1921. They were a family of Chinese Jews recognizing and assisting a fellow Jew in distress. I regret never asking my father if he knew the name of the family or the town. No chance of asking my grandfather. He would be murdered at Auschwitz in 1944.
@ Sebastian, Most of my relatives were killed during the Shoah.
One aunt escaped from Auschwitz.
@Rafi Same here on my father’s side. My father escaped from a forced labor camp and joined the Jewish resistance, and his first cousin survived Auschwitz. Everybody else in Hungary was murdered at Auschwitz in 1944. 19 people including his parents and both sets of grand and great grand parents, as well as all of his favorite uncles. He had a couple of uncles who had fled to America from the Horthy regime which was lynching Jews in Hungary in 1919, one of whom died before I was born, and the other of whom I was quite close to. and some distant American cousins I never met. My father said he felt they looked down on him as a “greenhorn” when he got off the boat and he never spoke to them again. He only mentioned them once in passing towards the end of his life. My mother was Jewish-American. She graduated college in 1945. My parents were the same age, born 2 weeks apart, same year, same month. Both music students.
correction both sets of my father’s grandparents, my great-grandparents.
Gives a diametrically opposite meaning to “wherever you go, there you are.”