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Valuable lost records of Jewish life in China during the Ming Dynasty, a thou sand years ago, have been brought re- cently to America, according to articles in the New York papers of March 9th. The article from the New York Times follows

Adolph S. Oko, librarina of the Hebrew Inion College, Cincinnati, has brought to New York complete records of Hebraic gommunity life and enlture which existed in Chia during the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, of which all trace had leen lust to civilization.

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Mr. Oku returned on Thursday on, the hegaris from an extended book scout ing expedition in Europe, in which he succeeded in finding, fifty-nine Chinese the Hebrew manuscripts bound in original Chinese milk, which, with the exemption of fourt which were stolen several years, ago from an exhibition in Landon, con stitute all the manuscripts known to have been written by Jews living in China.

The tutuseripts, consist of hynnais and aser books and were brought from China to London by the London Society Sag Promoting Christianity among the Jews in China, an organization which seat missionaries to that country for the first time in Ye They were purchased- by the missintries of that society in the village of Kar-fang-fro,

The manuscripts" are various in that. instead of being in the form of scrolls.. they are in the shape of fans. The oblong pages are fuked one mam the other, and The reader polls the pages out fa-wise. Several books, consisting of hynna's and prayer books contain translations of bynins in the Jewish-Persian dialect, thereby indicating a relationship between the Chinese and Persian Hebrew rituals.

The money for the purchase of these "Was books." said Mr. Oko recently, made available by a group of Jests in the West headed by Ben Selling of Port- aisil, Ure, and Rabbi Jonah" "Wise," san of Irene M. Wise, are founder of the Hebrew Inion College, also of that eity. With the new acquisitions the Hebrew Union College library will now house -70,000 books, among which are the largest Spinoza and Hebrew musical collections in the world."*

4. JEWS IN POVERTY.

Agcompanying the mumseripts is a his tory of the experience of the missionaries of the village of Kar-fing-fan. The in- troduction shows how in the middle of the nineteenth emitury once powerful Jewish groups had sauk into poverty and whole entunities were in danger of dis integration. Persecution and starvation were the familiar lot of the remnants of the Ming Dynasty Jews at that perin. The writer of the historyzappens in teresting notes, how the manuscripts were acquired.

The introdution to the history reads, in part, as follows:

Since the British treaty of Nanking in 1942 nay Christians in Europe have directed their attention toward the Jewa in Chiun it was at their request that the writer of these infroductory, remarks undertook to direct the general plan and i managenivat-of the undertaking.

A friendly feeling was generally evine townrd our visitors, which is in no amali measure attributable to the Hebrew let ter of introduction from Shanghai, of which, although the Jews anderstood not the purport, they readily perceived its identity with their, own adred writings. Without such an introduction they would probably have been received with sus picion and distrusted as spies.

Our visitors learned that during the year 1840 the whole of the little Jewish conununity at Kac-fung-foo were thrown into great alarm and exposed to danger of persecution, on account of suspected connection with" foreigners, by a letter written in Chinese and dispatched some time before by the late Temple Layton, HB. 3. Corsi at Amoy, for the purpose of procuring Home Hebrew 3.8.S;

Here in the midst of a surrounding population, two-thirds of whom were pro- fessurs of Mohammedanism, and close adjoining to a heathen temple dedicated to the god of fire, n, few Jewish fami lies, sunk in the lowest poverty and des- titution, their religion scarcely more than a name, and yet sufficient to separate them from the maltitude around, exposed to trial, reproach and the pain of long- deferred hope, remained the unconscious depositaries of the ortles of God and survived as the solitary witnesses of dri parted glory Not a single individunt. could read the Hebrew books; they lizd been without a rabili for fifty years.

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"The expectation of a Messiah seems to have been entirely lost. The rite of circumcision, which appears to have been observed at the period of their discovery by the Jesuits two centuries ago, bad heen totally discontinued. The synago- gue itself was tottering in ruins some of the ground had been alienated to pagan rites, and a portion of the fallen materials. sold to the neighbouring heathen. Some time previously they had petitioned the Chinese Emperor to have pity on their poverty, and to rebuild their temple. No reply had been received from Peking. but to this feeble hope they still clung. Out of seventy family names or clans. only seven now remained, numbering About son individuals in all, dispersed over the neighbourhood. According to present appearances, in the judgment of our native messengers, after a few years all traces of Judaism will probably have. disappeared."

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