To observant Jews, this week is Passover or Pesach, which is a celebration of the Jewish people’s escape from slavery in Egypt, mixed up with some Spring Festival-type seasonal fun. Here then, some Sino-Jewish links:
The Sino-Judaic Institute – a society aimed at encouraging the study and preservation of Jewish history in China;
China Judaic Studies Association – which is organizing a conference in Nanjing in August 2005 called ‘Holocaust and Genocide in WWII: Jewish and Chinese Experiences’;
Kehillat Beijing – Beijing Jewish community;
The Roots of Babylon – Why Rastafarians see the second period of Jewish slavery as the central story of their creed.